gainst all odds and expectations, the world has developed three effective vaccines to aid in the fight against Covid-19 – with more expected to follow. It marks a historic scientific achievement that many scientists feared was beyond the realms of possibility when Sars-CoV-2 first emerged late last year.
Typically, the average vaccine requires a development timeline of 10.71 years and is only 6 per cent likely to make it to market, according to research. At the start of the year, experts warned that the road to developing a vaccine was long, winding and likely to end in deflation.
Yet, after 12 months of waiting and watching, all such concerns have dissipated. The vaccine manufacturing rule book has not been ripped up in the process – far from it – but instead rewritten and improved to demonstrate what is possible when the intentional scientific community comes together with one common goal in mind.
