COVID-19 VACCINATION STUDIES
By: Recep Suluker
Tags: Coronavirus, Healty, Vaccination, Covid 19, Coronavirus Covid19

Hello, science lovers

who have spent their lives in quarantine and are too tired of it? Today, we will examine the vaccination studies that are expected to protect us against the Covid-19 virus, which steals at least two weeks from our lives, and some of us who have killed some people we love and have left permanent damage.

First, let’s review Covid-19 and vaccine concepts.

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What is Covid-19?

Covid-19 is a newly discovered member of the Corona Virus family as a class, which emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Although it is from the same family as viruses such as Sars and Mers and is much less deadly than them, it has a high level of the transmission mechanism, which has led to a position that directs our lives.

Although many theories were put forward about which animal this virus transmitted to humans at first, it was eventually announced that the virus passed from bats to humans.

With its high transmission rate, this virus, which has spread to the whole world in a few months and killed tens of thousands, still stands as a great threat to us.

Well, let’s talk a little bit about the vaccine that is our hope against this virus.

What is the vaccine?

Vaccination is the process of immunizing people ‘before they get sick’ against any bacterial or viral diseases.

Microorganisms, which are any disease factors, are injected into human blood by weakening their resistance and enable the immune system to recognize the cause of the infection and to produce antibodies accordingly.

It may sound interesting, but many common diseases such as tuberculosis, polio, and smallpox have been minimized with vaccines. And of course, the vaccine for bacterial diseases and the effect of the vaccine are much stronger because they mutate much less than viruses.

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Covid-19 Vaccination Studies

Now let’s look at vaccine studies on Covid-19. As I said before, the vaccine for viral diseases is more difficult due to the concept of mutation, but this does not mean that there are no promising studies, of course.

Before talking about vaccine trials that have already been tested on animals, let’s talk about the levels of vaccines and how many studies there are at what level.

Phase 1

Phase 2

Stage 3

Angry

Approved

As you can see, we examine vaccines related to Covid-19 in five groups.

While there are 27 studies in Phase 1, 15 in Phase 2, 9 in Phase 3, and 5 in the Limited category, there are no studies yet approved.

Nevertheless, do not lose hope, because the end of the tunnel has appeared and vaccines may begin to spread in mid-2021, according to the statements of the World Health Organization.

Although it is not currently an approved vaccine, let us state that countries such as Russia, China, and America have started to apply their own vaccines in a controlled manner, and countries such as England and Germany have started vaccine trials with volunteer people.

We hope that vaccination studies will yield results as soon as possible and we can get rid of the pandemic negativity to some extent.

We wish you all healthy days.

We are looking forward to seeing your experiences during quarantine days in the comment section.

From,

Mehmet Ali Akdemir

Department of Medicine at Istanbul Medipol University

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