COVID Vaccines and What We Know So Far
A vaccine is a biological cocktail that is designed to give you immunity to a certain disease. It usually contains a key ingredient that mimics the disease-causing organism. It uses a weakened or dead form of the disease itself to develop immunity within the vaccine recipient’s body. When will a COVID vaccine be available? There are multiple countries, labs, and organizations around the world working on a vaccine. Each one is at a different state. The WHO lists the known projects working on the vaccine. The Four Types of Vaccines When you hear of a vaccine, you don’t really think about its origin story. But the truth is that every vaccine is unique. Inactivated or weakened virus vaccines, as mentioned above, use an inactive/dead/weakened form of COVID-19 virus. Protein-based vaccines use innocuous fragments of proteins to recreate the COVID-19 virus that would incite the immune system to activate a fighting response. Viral vector vaccines use gene