Sustainability of the Public Health System amid the COVID- 19 Pandemic: COVID Vaccines

Coronavirus Disease — 2019 (COVID-19) isn’t something that anyone can just simply shrug off. Particularly nowadays, when it has already affected and taken millions of lives.

The spread of COVID-19 is a manifestation of a health crisis for our generation and the most noteworthy challenge we have encountered yet. Since its discovery in China a year ago, the the contamination spreads on every landmass aside from Antarctica.

As of today, no medication has the ability to ultimately cure the disease. This leaves us to resort to finding the specific tool capable of conditioning our immune system before the virus invades our body, that is, a vaccine.

There has been a concentrated quest in searching for the medication to ultimately stop the infection, but none has emerged successfully yet. Only a few medications, hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir, in particular, have been regarded as viable remedies to combat the coronavirus, however, these discoveries are rooted merely on fundamental, conflicting, and uncertain investigations. What the world needs is a medical tool that is, in any event, powerful enough to stop the pandemic. These medications aid in relieving the symptoms of the infected, but not necessarily cure the actual disease.

Vaccination is a basic, safe, and compelling method of securing individuals against destructive sickness. Antibodies diminish the dangers of getting infections by working with our body’s immune system beforehand.

As coronavirus antibodies are approved and afterward suggested for use, it will be important to comprehend what is known about every immunization. As of now, two vaccines are approved and prescribed to forestall coronavirus: the ​​​​Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus antibody and Moderna’s coronavirus antibody.

On December 11, 2020, the US Food and Medication Organization gave its first crisis use license for immunization for the avoidance of COVID-19 brought about by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is a vaccine that may forestall COVID-19. The FDA has approved the crisis utilization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to forestall COVID-19 in people 16 years old and more established under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine will be given to you as an infusion into the muscle. The inoculation arrangement is 2 portions given 21 days separated. In view of proof from clinical preliminaries, the Pfizer-BioNTech immunization was 95% compelling at forestalling lab affirmed COVID-19 disease in individuals without proof of the past contamination.

Another vaccine is the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine. The FDA has approved the emergency use of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to prevent COVID-19 to individuals 18 years of age and older under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). You will be given this vaccine as a muscle injection. Vaccination series is 2 doses given 1 month interval. In clinical preliminaries, indications of reactogenicity (impacts that happen inside 7 days of immunization) are normal however typically mild to moderate. Side effects, (for example, fever, chills, exhaustion, and migraine) all through the body are more normal following a second portion of the immunization. Most side effects are mild to moderate. In any case, few individuals have extreme results that influence their capacity to perform everyday exercises. In light of proof from clinical preliminaries, the Moderna immunization is 94.1% effective in forestalling affirmed coronavirus illness in individuals accepting two dosages with no proof that they were recently tainted.

Until now, there is no specific antiviral medication to treat coronavirus 2019. Until explicit and successful drug intercessions are accessible, individuals should be advised to follow safety precautions. At the individual level, individuals ought to follow strategies for lessening the the risk of spread, which include thorough hand-washing, covering your nose when wheezing, hacking into your elbow, not touching one’s face, and observing social distancing.

Coronavirus is dreaded. However, this doesn’t imply that individuals ought to stay terrified. With proper information on the illness, how it infects, and how it can be prevented, individuals should be more prepared in the fight against COVID-19.

Article by Tisha Yvon Maglinte, Scintillate

Edited by John Derek Ganub, JUST SciTech Editor