The COVID-19 pandemic is a shocking reminder of how our world would look in the absence of vaccination. Fortunately, new technologies, the pace of understanding new and existing pathogens, and the increased knowledge of the immune system allow us today to develop vaccines at an unprecedented speed. Some of the vaccine technologies that are fast-tracked by the urgency of COVID-19 may also be the answer for other health priorities, such as antimicrobial resistance, chronic infections, and cancer, that the post-COVID-19 world will urgently need to face. This perspective analyzes the way COVID-19 is transforming vaccinology and the opportunities for vaccines to have an increasingly important role in health and well-being.

COVID-19 大流行令人震惊地提醒我们，如果没有疫苗接种，我们的世界将会是什么样子。幸运的是，新技术、了解新病原体和现有病原体的速度以及对免疫系统知识的增加使我们今天能够以前所未有的速度开发疫苗。一些因 COVID-19 的紧迫性而被快速追踪的疫苗技术也可能是解决其他健康优先事项的答案，例如抗微生物药物耐药性、慢性感染和癌症，这是后 COVID-19 世界迫切需要的脸。这一观点分析了 COVID-19 正在改变疫苗学的方式以及疫苗在健康和福祉中发挥越来越重要作用的机会。