Health expert warns vaccine essential for Olympics in 2021: report

A leading global health scientist has said holding the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 would be "very unrealistic" without an effective vaccine for the new coronavirus, the BBC reported Friday on its website.Devi Sridhar, the chair of global health at the University of Edinburgh, said the timely development of a vaccine would be necessary for the games to go ahead as now scheduled from July 23 to Aug. 8 next year, a one-year postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic."If we do get a vaccine within the next year then actually I think that (the Olympics) is realistic," the professor said. "The vacci…READ FULL ARTICLE