Abstract
At the beginning of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic due to
the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),
scientists primarily have focused on diagnostic tests. At the 9th month
of the pandemic, discussions are being continued on preventive and
therapeutic drugs. Meanwhile, vaccine development strategies like
“operation warp speed” gave their early results in developed
countries. Nowadays, these vaccines are at the forefront of the world
health agenda. Numerous social media posts, conspiracy theories, and
some health professional’s statements that raise vaccination hesitancy
are the equipment of anti-vaxxers propaganda. On the other hand,
declarations like ballyhoo of nationalism with the claims of scientific
quacksalvers have intertwined, and that has been led to the loss of
trust in the scientific community to the vaccine. We have to admit that
this propaganda has affected millions of people in an unwanted
direction. Scientific declarations have to rely on researches that have
accurate and reliable statistical methods supported with basic
biological knowledge. Scientific research results should be disclosed
transparently and its methods must have reproducibility to provide
replicability. Here, we scrutinize the biological features of the
respiratory transmitted and successfully prevented measles virus (MV)
and variola virus (smallpox virus) and their vaccines to compare them
with the SARS-COV-2 virus and vaccine. Next, we will discuss the
statistical details of measuring the effectiveness of an improved
vaccine.