One of the most frequent questions that is being asked these days is that when would the world be able to go back to ‘normal’ which is reeling under unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. But the fact of the matter is that things would not go back to the way they were until we have a practically ideal medication to treat COVID-19, or when every individual on the planet has been vaccinated against coronavirus.
The former is probably not going to happen at any point of time in the near future. We would need a miracle treatment that was in any event 95 percent successful to stop the outbreak. Which leaves us with a vaccination.
Mankind has never had a more compelling undertaking than making expansive immunity for coronavirus. All things considered, if we want to go back to the way things were, we have to develop a successful and safe vaccine. We have to produce billions of dosages, we have to make them available to all parts of the world, and we need this to happen as fast as possible that is expected under the circumstances.
That sounds daunting, because it really is. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the biggest fund provider for developing vaccines in the world, and in the words of Gates himself, “This effort dwarfs anything we’ve ever worked on before. It’s going to require a global cooperative effort like the world has never seen. But I know it’ll get done. There’s simply no alternative.”
Unfortunately, creating a vaccine capable of preventing COVID-19 will probably take at least a year to 18 months according to health officials albeit eighteen months may seem like quite a while, but this would be the quickest researchers have made any vaccine. Development typically takes around five years. When you pick a disorder or illness to target, you need to make the immunization and test it on various animals. At that point you start testing for wellbeing and adequacy in people.
It is to be noted that the smallpox vaccine is the only immunization in the past that has completely eradicated an entire disease off the face of the earth, but it’s also pretty harsh to receive. It left a scar on the arm of any individual who got it. One out of each three individuals had symptoms terrible enough to keep them home from school or work. A little—however not irrelevant—number developed more serious reactions. The smallpox vaccine was a long way from great, yet it got the job done. The COVID-19 immunization may be the same.
If we were making the ideal vaccine, we'd need it to be totally safe and 100 percent compelling. It ought to be a single dosage that gives you a lifelong assurance that this would never affect you again, and it ought to be anything but difficult to store and transport. One can only hope that the COVID-19 antibody has those characteristics, however, given the course of events we're on, it may not.
The major challenge for the development stage will be making sure the vaccine works well in older people. The older you are, the less effective vaccine are for you. Your immune system—like the remainder of your body—ages and is slower to perceive and assault intruders. That’s a huge issue for a COVID-19 vaccine since older people are the most vulnerable. We need to ensure they’re protected.
Once it is proven that the vaccine is effective and it passes all the phases of its trial, the challenge is that we need to manufacture and distribute at least 7 billion doses of the vaccine. The following challenge would be, who will get the vaccine when. The reality is that everyone will not be able to get the vaccine simultaneously. It'll take months—or even years—to make 7 billion dosages or perhaps 14 billion dosages, if it's a multi-dose immunization and we should begin disseminating them as soon as the first batch is ready to go.
A great many people concur that health workers ought to get the vaccine first. But who gets it next? Older people? Teachers? Workers in essential jobs? The WHO and national health authorities will need to develop a distribution plan once we have a better comprehension of what we’re working with.
It may be difficult to see at this moment but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We're doing the correct things to get a vaccine as fast as could reasonably be expected. In the meantime, continue to follow the advisories made by the WHO and abide by the guidelines set by the government. Our ability to get through this outbreak will rely upon everybody doing their part to keep each other safe.