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This has been an incredibly difficult year for everyone.
But 2020 has also been a year of very important medical and scientific achievements in which a new disease has been characterized, its genome has been sequenced, and diagnoses and treatments have been developed.
And now, subject to authorization from the European Medicines Agency, Ireland is about to implement at least two Covid-19 vaccines as part of a national vaccination program.
(Image: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin)
Many now wonder, how has everything happened so fast?
There are several reasons this timeline has actually been shortened for Covid-19 vaccine candidates.
First, there have been enormous levels of investment and scientific and medical research, on a scale never seen before in vaccine development.
Second, due to the large number of new Covid-19 cases around the world, vaccine trials were able to quickly measure differences in disease risk between those who received the vaccine and those who received the placebo or dummy vaccine.
Third, many of the processes that normally take place one after another in vaccine development have run in parallel.
But we are not done yet. This virus doesn’t care that we got it right recently.
It doesn’t matter that we are tired or desperate to see our family and friends.
It is no less dangerous now than it was in March.
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