WHO WOULD FIRST LAY HANDS ON COVID-19 VACCINE?

The whole world is stuck in a hustle bustle to find the effective vaccine to cure people from the deadliest virus. In this case scenario, a question arises, Who would be the first to get a Covid-19 vaccine? The most legit answer to the question asked is, the people of the country where the vaccine is developed are the initial and the foremost one to avail it.

Around the globe numerous doctors and scientist are working day and night to prepare a vaccine. Every country is contributing in some way or the other to come up with a possible vaccine so far. As one can witness, there are already dozen of vaccines which are in various stage of testing worldwide, including Britain, China and the US.

The top US infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, he is cautiously optimistic there will be a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year or early 2021.

Various affluent countries have already ordered millions of doses of the experimental vaccines. For instance, Britain and the US have already invested in a vaccine candidate being developed by Oxford University and produced by AstraZeneca. Britons, will be vaccinated with it, if the vaccine function, as per UK politicians. While, on the other hand US is about to commence stockpiling this fall and besides this investment in other candidates is also made. 

The vaccine alliance groups, GAVI are working to acquire doses for the poor countries and AstraZeneca has also acknowledged to license its vaccine for production of 1 billion doses to India’s Serum Institute. 

The World Health Organisation is preparing an outline for the ethical dispensation of COVID-19 vaccines. However, the distribution of the vaccine will vary from country to country. Last week, US officials said they were developing a tiered system for that. The system would likely prioritise groups at greatest risk of severe complications from COVID-19 and key workers.