WHO is to be Blamed and when It Will End and the Search for a Vaccine

  • WHO is being blamed for blatantly soft-pedalled China՚s dubious role in covering up the deliberating spread of this novel coronavirus disease?
  • The World Health Organization waited for a week to declare Covid-19 as the global health emergency.
  • The Covid-19 cases increased to 10 times and the virus entered 18 countries before it was declared as the global health emergency.
  • WHO kept deflecting the debate between “containment” and “mitigation” .
  • Containment refers to a phase when the virus can be contained or chain of transmission control.
  • Mitigation is the phase when it is accepted that virus can no longer be controlled and all possible efforts should be made to mitigate the same.
  • WHO is also being targeted as initially it said that the healthy persons need not wear masks?
  • By April 2020 this pandemic had spread to more than 200 countries, infecting 1.73 million people leaving 108,000 dead.

When It Will End and the Search for a Vaccine

  • Most countries have adopted the flatten the curve model to fight COVID-19.
  • Some countries like South Korea have contained to a great extent, countries like Italy and US have witnessed high mortality.
  • Methods such as social distancing, wearing face masks, and sanitization are being used to reduce the number of cases worldwide.
  • Other methods like herd immunity-where the disease is allowed to take its natural course thereby affecting a large population have been rejected.
  • Managed Herd Immunity is being discussed by the experts in which only the people at risk are quarantined while others can work. It allows economic growth without burdening healthcare system.
  • It is further believed that while controlling the epidemic by sustained social distancing at least a year may be taken before a vaccine is likely to be found.
  • It is also being ensured that the drugs and vaccines can be made in sufficient quantities and are affordable.
  • According to WHO 67 vaccines were in preclinical stage and three vaccines were in phase1 clinical trials as of April 11,2020.
  • Biotech companies involved in making vaccine and related products are being monitored by the Wall Street.
  • Small biotech companies and universities are mostly involved at present on the research related to drugs, vaccines and diagnostics.
  • For example Boston based Modern is working on a vaccine which is based on a spike protein of the corona virus.
When it will End and the Search for a Vaccine

However It Needs to Be Noted That Development of Vaccine Needs Time and the Vaccination Search May Not Always Give a Breakthrough

Disease outbreak and the year of Vaccination

Disease outbreak and the year of Vaccination
DiseaseYear of SpreadVaccine
Spanish Flu (H1N1)19181942
Asian Flu (H5N1)19572007
AIDS1981Not available
Swine Flu (H1N1)20092009
West African Ebola20142019
Zika2015Not available

Examrace Team at Aug 28, 2021