{"id":33568,"date":"2020-08-21T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=33568"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:00:34","slug":"a-vaccine-for-covid-19-stay-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/a-vaccine-for-covid-19-stay-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vaccine for COVID-19: Optimism despite the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to stay optimistic that a vaccine for COVID-19 will soon be available for public consumption?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Categorizing how a vaccine for COVID-19 works<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Half a year since the COVID-19 pandemic took the whole world by storm<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/coronavirus-vaccine-launched-in-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How far are we on developing a trusted vaccine for COVID-19?<\/a> Are we there yet in terms of vaccines? Or are we still left hanging with a bunch of promising vaccines yet to be proven? Remember, science has yet to develop a cure to HIV-AIDS. How sure are we it won&#8217;t be the same with the coronavirus?<br \/>\n<strong>How much progress has science made towards finding a vaccine for COVID-19?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The human immune system can fight off the virus.\u00a0<\/strong>Knowing that our own immune system can fight off the COVID-19 virus, scientists are convinced that an effective vaccine to boost the immune system can lead to an effective vaccine for COVID-19. The immune system&#8217;s response to the virus makes it different from the HIV-AIDS strain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Increasing anti-spike protein antibodies.<\/strong> Based on clinical trials, an increase in anti-spike antibodies prevents the spread of infection between cells. At least seven pharmaceutical companies that are working on a vaccine have focused on acquiring monoclonal antibodies, antibodies that prevent the development of infection on individuals exposed to the virus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Determining the safety precautions of vaccines.<\/strong> While developing a vaccine remains to be the top priority, parallel research on the medication&#8217;s side-effects stays equally as important.<a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1325116\/pfizer-looks-at-vaccine-with-fewest-side-effects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> An allergic reaction is one of the main focuses when it comes to side-effects<\/a>. Messing up with an unwanted allergic reaction on a virus that primarily attacks the respiratory system can be fatal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With an increasing number of clinical trials conducted by various pharmaceutical companies, it won&#8217;t be long till an effective vaccine against the COVID-19 strain comes out for mass treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to stay optimistic that a vaccine for COVID-19 will soon be available for public consumption? Categorizing how a vaccine for COVID-19 works Half a year since the COVID-19 pandemic took the whole world by storm. How far are we on developing a trusted vaccine for COVID-19? Are we there yet in terms of vaccines? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":33571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}