The coronavirus vaccine can take 2 years for making it a full-fledged cure
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 02-05-2020
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The vaccine has to work on the safety and efficacy aspect before it could be used on humans. Even vaccines have minor side effects because they are the weakened virus that is ingested into the bloodstream, so the mild fever is our body's response to fight against the virus and create the antibodies that are so required for you to fight the virus if it gets to you. The trials show you the efficacy of the vaccine, and each time the success rate may vary. You would have to work on it.
Three phases in which the coronavirus vaccine trials are checked for efficacy:
- Phase one would be the safety trial. You would have to check this onto a small group of healthy volunteers and trying out dosages of varying strengths so that we could create the most robust immune response for the lowest effective dose with minimal side effects to the person
- Once you get the right formula in place, you would have to move onto phase two of the trials to check the vaccine on the people who are intended to get it. This time around, the scale of people who are getting the vaccine is bigger. The demography of the people is varied with people of different age groups, and health statuses are included
- Phase three takes a bit of time because the number of people getting the vaccine is also large, but these are the people who are more susceptible to get the disease. Here there is a wait and watch process to see how it works on them
When the vaccine has passed through the trial phases, it is then the manufacturing pharmaceutical companies await the government agency's approval to go ahead to make it in bulk. It is the usual process for any vaccine developing, but now we have just compressed the timeline and hope we end up making an effective vaccine in the end.