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Setback for Russia as India knocks out proposal to test its Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine

~ DAVID



How close are we to a vaccine? A question that anticipates a positive response, yet the question falls into the territory of "What's the reason for delay?"

Well, the efficiency of vaccine go first and side-effects very next. We’ve become willfully blind to soak that vaccine takes years of research. However, thanks to billions of dollars being invested by countries to develop a vaccine, a major concern is ‘race' which nations have succumbed to. Sputnik V is nothing different from this. Without even proper trials in their own country, Russians approved the vaccine! This somehow shows their concern for money over anything. Keeping the risk of side-effects at a side, India can't allow them to test Russian Vaccine on a large scale as the overseas result data is not sufficient. Clearly officials don't want to make any mistake by allowing it's trial on large scale without completing full trials properly on small scale!



Russia’s recent trials, into USA's database, India's optimistic approach to prepare a vaccine, rather than a matter of lives, the pandemic has become a matter of vaccine, which is justified to an extent. However, even in unprecedented times, global cooperation is in action. While ICMR, Oxford-AstraZeneca are putting in commendable efforts to develop a vaccine Russians presumed that Sputnik V is a perfect vaccine even before completing all the trials and that's why it's not really very reliable at all.

What USSR couldn’t do with an arsenal of nuclear weapons, China did it with a single Virus, I.e. to bring the US and the whole world for a fact, to its knees. While nuclear weapons were one of the major deterrents until now, the post COVID world would also fear biological weapons. The outbreak of Wuhan Virus might very well be a mishap but it has unclogged our primordial focus from conventional threats to biological and cyber threats as well. Freedom to be a galavant, freedom to leave your home without a mask, freedom to gather in public places, and freedom to feel a human touch would take a sizeable amount of time.



The question however still persists, is life a race? Or perhaps, when will we get a vaccine to buy our freedom back?


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