International efforts are ramping up to find a vaccine for COVID-19

Medical researchers around the world are working on multiple approaches to find the best vaccine candidate

Desperate times call for desperate measures. As the world finally awakes to the dangers of an aggressively spreading pandemic, one burning question arising in everybody’s mind — what is being done to fight the disease? Looking at the data, it is abundantly clear that it is not a localized phenomenon anymore and the spread is global and accelerating.

Especially here in North America, the governments were oblivious to having a problem until the number of infected cases started to grow exponentially last week. As the situation turned extremely fluid, U.S has now declared a state of national emergency & Canada has gone into a partial shut down as well. No point in discussing why it took them so long to decide on these actions.

The entire focus has now shifted to changing social behaviors so that the spread can be at least slowed down enough to better understand what we are dealing with. While the people come to this realization, the ultimate aim is of course to find some kind of vaccine which can offer protection. So far, we have some basic knowledge of the virus from the comprehensive study conducted in…