Doctor’s Note: Does COVID-19 vaccine effort succeed?

The pandemic COVID-19 is the unprecedented crisis of our day.

To counter this, the public health and scientific communities have collaborated at unprecedented rates to produce a vaccine in only 12 to 18 months, a process that would usually take five to ten years.

Shortly after the appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus last December, scientists found out its molecular structure, and a vast amount of research started. By mid-January, scientists knew what the virus was, recognized its genetic code, and were able to take it and bring it into the already developed vaccine systems across the globe.

Human clinical trials began just two months after the virus was discovered.