All You Need to know about the Covid-19 Vaccine

Hello Everyone As the World is Going through the Covid-19 Pandemic Everyone is hoping to get the Covid-19  Vaccine Fast

Humankind has never had a more urgent task than creating broad immunity for coronavirus Vaccine. To Go Back to a Safe and Normal Life, we need to get an effective Vaccine for Coronavirus and to do that we need millions of Doses to give them ot to every part of the World.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has said that he thinks it will take eighteen Months to develop the Coronavirus Vaccine though it can be as short as 9 months or 2 years

Although this sounds a long time it is actually the fastest, scientists are creating the vaccine because usually when you choose a target disease it takes around 5 years to get the Solution

Safety and Efficacy are the two most needed goals in a Vaccine

Safety in the sense of Vaccine mean is the Vaccine safe to give to people? Some Minor effects such as Injection Site Pain or Mild fever Can be acceptable but you don't want to give something which makes people sick.

Efficacy tells how the Vaccine is affecting and protecting you from the Disease. Although you’d ideally want a vaccine to have 100 percent efficacy, many don’t. For example, this year’s flu vaccine is around 45 percent effective.

To test for safety and efficacy, every vaccine goes through three phases of trials:

  • Phase one is the safety trial. A small group of healthy volunteers gets the vaccine candidate. You try out different dosages to create the strongest immune response at the lowest effective dose without serious side effects.
  • Once you’ve settled on a formula, you move onto phase two, which tells you how well the vaccine works in the people who are intended to get it. This time, hundreds of people get the vaccine. This cohort should include people of different ages and health statuses.
  • Then, in phase three, you give it to thousands of people. This is usually the longest phase, because it occurs in what’s called “natural disease conditions.” You introduce it to a large group of people who are likely already at the risk of infection by the target pathogen, and then wait and see if the vaccine reduces how many people get sick.

After the vaccine passes all three trial phases, you start building the factories to manufacture it, and it gets submitted to the WHO and various government agencies for approval.

This process works well for most vaccines, but the normal development timeline isn’t good enough right now. Every day we can cut from this process will make a huge difference to the world in terms of saving lives and reducing trillions of dollars in economic damage.

So, to speed up the process, vaccine developers are compressing the timeline. This graphic shows how:


Hoping for the Best!

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