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The fabrication and utilization of nanoscale materials in nanomedicine encompasses a wide variety of fields, including drug delivery, vaccine production, antibacterial, diagnostic and imaging instruments, wearable devices, implants, and high‐throughput screening platforms, using biological, nonbiological, biomimetic, or hybrid materials. Nanomedicine‐based strategies possibly have several promising platforms to encapsulate vaccines and deliver them to antigen‐presenting cells or to serve as antigen‐presenting carriers themselves (Pelaz et al. 2017). In addition, medications may be encapsulated in such carriers to be targeted specifically at infected cells. In specific, virus imitating NPs such as self‐assembled liposomes, viral proteins, and virus‐like particles are capable of replicating the mechanism of infection and can be used not only as a delivery system but also to research viral infections and associated mechanisms. NP‐based vaccines may also be used to make COVID‐19 therapies more effective (Heinrich et al. 2020).