In today's situation right now we need a vaccine that would help not only to fight the coronavirus or COVID-19 inside our body but in order to prevent it for further spreading. Many researchers around world are findings what is the best to fight COVID-19. One of the solution that come up to the investigation is herd immunity. Herd immunity helps a population to fight and prevent the spreading of a diseases in a certain area by using natural immunity and the vaccine.
Discussing about the herd immunity right now may not the case because it must discuss first by the researchers or professionals to test it's efficacy. The main focus to fight this COVID-19 is not in the herd immunity but instead of the vaccination process. If there is no vaccine the immunization in a population will not occur. Unfortunately, still the scientists or medical experts around the world are finding the best vaccine that can fight this pandemic. In addition, regarding to the natural immunity which is part of herd immunity, still it's in the clinical trials, because there are cases in South Korea that the patients whose tested negative in the virus were experienced it again. So the natural immunity of a recovered human that has been produced it's own antibodies in their body has not been known yet if it may only last for a months or year. Still it is studying by the experts.
Insights!
As a future biologist, right now its been 8 months that coronavirus spread throughout the globe. So many companies around the globe have been making vaccine for the said virus. They are competing to find the right vaccine for the people in this planet.
My insights in herd immunity, for me its good but I can't assure the efficacy of vaccine because there is a lot of trials that the vaccine must faced. As I read that it took 9 years to have a vaccine for ebola virus in south africa. So for me 8 months its not enough to make a vaccine that hundred percent effective to the humans. Some vaccines that I saw was from Russia. I know the fact that russia is not so expert in medical field but it said that the efficacy of their vaccine to fight the virus is high. Also the pfizer, one of the biggest pharmaceutical company in the whole world. There vaccine is also high as far as I remembered maybe its in the ninety five percent effective to humans.
The testing of the vaccine started in United Kingdom wherein the Senior Citizen was the priority over the children because there immune system is lower than the children. After the senior citizen is the children and the adults. So as far as I know they will test the Herd's power if they will be improvement of the vaccine when it goes inside the body of the person.
In the Philippines there is no accurate news about vaccine because our country seems to be in seriously debt in the world bank organization. So it will took three to five years before all of the filipinos will receive the vaccine.
Back to the herd's immunity, this method was used by the scientist just to study how the vaccine was effective to human. If the vaccine will protect them of getting the virus inside our body.
In conclusion, the only safest way to stop this pandemic is just a vaccine before the herd immunity concept, but until now there is no vaccine yet that has been developed. . The only things that we can do are social distancing, wearing masks and proper hand washing.
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