Bad news: Scientists think a coronavirus vaccine might not work for one huge group of people

[Andy Meek]

• The earliest estimates are that a successful, viable coronavirus vaccine could make it to the finish line and be ready for introduction into the general population by the end of this year.
• Change wouldn't happen overnight in terms of an impact on the coronavirus pandemic, however. Getting everyone vaccinated will represent a major logistical challenge.
• Even so, there are concerns that a coronavirus vaccine won't even work or will provide little protection to at least one group of people -- the obese.

For the nearly 19 million people around the world who've contracted COVID-19 thus far during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the millions more taking so many precautions to keep themselves and their loved ones safe from the COVID-19 virus, a coronavirus vaccine can't come fast enough. Indeed, the promise of ending this thing, and of getting to whatever's on the other side of the pandemic, can be summed in one word for those people and for all of us, really: A vaccine.

President Trump insisted, no doubt aggressively so, on Geraldo Rivera's radio program on Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine is possible before the November 3 presidential election date. That may or may not be the case (it most likely won't be, even though some respected experts are predicting a vaccine could materialize by the end of this year). However, there's one aspect of a vaccine that's starting to be talked about now which represents bad news for a broad slice of the American population, and that includes the people who it's believed a successful coronavirus vaccine won't be able to help: The obese.

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