Opinion on The Coronavirus Vaccine

    The coronavirus has been going on since 2019 and the coronavirus vaccine is still in the clinical trial phase of the vaccine until now. There is much debate between scientists regarding this coronavirus vaccine. In this blog, I will share my opinion about the COVID-19 vaccine which is still being debated by scientists.

    The stage of making a vaccine usually requires years of research and testing before it reaches the clinical phase. However, there is an exception to the case of COVID-19, scientists are racing to create a safe and effective vaccine by next year.

    Based on the sources that I read, for the COVID-19 case, the vaccines are still in stages two and three, namely the preclinical and clinical trials. To date, there are at least 24 vaccines that have entered clinical trial phase I, 14 vaccines in clinical trial II, 9 vaccines in clinical trial phase III, and 3 vaccines in the early or limited approval stage, but none of the coronavirus vaccines have passed approval stage. According to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the manufacturing process and the journey of the coronavirus vaccine are still long. But the spread of vaccines can still occur even if the initial safety tests go well. Approximately it will still take one to one and a half years for this vaccine to be available to the global community and it is a very short time to make a vaccine. 

    In my opinion, vaccines must be in an intensive development stage to minimize the risk of vaccine side effects. Besides, the global population has also been waiting for the COVID-19 vaccine so that we can do our usual activities, but we should prevent the spread of the coronavirus by washing hands frequently, wearing masks, and maintaining distance from others to reduce cases infected by the coronavirus.