I Wasn’t Optimistic About the COVID Vaccines Until Now
I don’t consider myself a pessimistic person but the pandemic and how some of us have handled it has illustrated why we as humans have found ourselves in this predicament in the first place and why I questioned our ability to get ourselves out of it.
Someone dropped the ball in Wuhan. The Chinese government hid information from the World Health Organization. Other governments did not take the virus seriously or seriously enough.
People stockpiled resources in order to sell them at a profit. Others ignored safety protocol. Still others called it a hoax and continue to do so.
When news broke about vaccines that were 90–95% effective, I was pleasantly surprised but I questioned if trials would be done comprehensively enough to actually save lives instead of issuing a quick fix.
As introverted as I am, the waves of quarantining have not been good to me. I want to go out and breathe without a mask as much as the next person, but not if it means infecting others or myself.
Luckily, there may be a reason for optimism after all.
Mark Toshner, the Director of Translational Biomedical Research at the University of Cambridge has outlined how impressed he is at the effectiveness of the vaccines but also the speed of the pharmaceutical…
