vaccines

This article was originally published at Leaps Mag. It is reprinted with permission.

There are two ways to become immune against an infectious disease: The not-so-fun way and the really-not-so-fun way.

By Maitreyi Shivkumar, De Montfort University

In medicine, when something goes wrong and the finger (and deposition) pointing starts. Who's to blame?? There has to be someone.

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.

The United Kingdom just became the first Western nation to approve a coronavirus vaccine for public use.

Over the past several days, the world has received monumentally good news: Vaccines exist against the coronavirus, and they are effective. Even better, vaccines are being developed by multiple companies.

We were pro-GMO before the term "GMO" was even invented. That's because the acronym "GMO" is not used by scientists, but is instead a colloquialism employed by the media, activists, and the general public.

Thanks to Herculean efforts by pharmaceutical companies all over the globe, the biomedical research community is now on the verge of producing the world's first successful coronavirus vaccine.

The good news shot around the planet within minutes: American pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer, in collaboration with the German firm BioNTech, have produced a vaccine that is 90% effective at preventing coronavirus infection.