The S Word

COVID-19 has created havoc across putting economies, business, and other daily life activities at a halt. Now at this point humanity needs leadership and solidarity to defeat Coronavirus. There is a saying that "prevention is better than cure". None of want to be in the isolation ward by getting effected by the virus. So we must take care and protect others by doing the following: The best possible was to restrict the servere airborne disease is  " self isolation".  By staying at home, you are saving the life of somebody’s grandad. Or their mum. Or even the people you love. You are making sure you don’t catch and spread the virus – so you have probably already saved lives.

          The  COVID vaccine trial in UK •Microbiologist Elisa Granato, being injected as part of the first human trials in the UK for a potential coronavirus vaccine, untaken by Oxford University, England. •The researchers started screening healthy volunteers in March for the 'ChAdOx1 nCoV-19' vaccine trial. The vaccine was developed in under three months by a team at Oxford University. Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at the Jenner Institute, led the pre-clinical research. So how does the vaccine work? The vaccine is made from adenovirus (a weakened version of a common cold viruses) from chimpanzees that has been modified so it cannot grow in humans. How will it be known that the vaccine actually works? The only way the team will know if the Covid-19 vaccine works is by comparing the number of people who get infected with coronavirus in the months ahead from the two arms of the trial. What is the aim  of human tria...

What is vaccine?            It's nothing but a training course for our body immune system. They harmlessly show viruses or bacteria to our bodies. Our immune system recognise then as invaders and they have to fight them. It means next time we encounter the disease in real , our body already knows how to fight them. What research is being done?           The WHO says that more than 70 teams is currently working in that vaccine. It has quickly become the most important pieces of scientific research around the world. While some Universities posing other projects to work on it full time. But trails being done with no of animals as well as humans. When it would be ready?            Scientists at the university of Oxford has said it could be as early as "September 2020" but that is, if everything goes according to plan at every single state. That means if something goes wr...