Drug development and trials: Spare 2 minutes to know the whole process
If someone tells you today that the corona vaccine has been developed, then after a few days tells that all the clinical trials have been successful, then you will be confused as to what is going on and what is yet to happen. In order to come out of this puzzle, you need to devote just 2 minutes hre and know the whole process of drug development. Let's refresh our basics before starting this discussion. Corona-borne disease ie Covid-19 is a viral disease. If it was a bacteria-borne disease, , like typhoid, cholera etc, the disease could be overcome by giving anti-biotic to the patients, killing the bacteria that entered their body. But the virus cannot be killed, so for a viral disease such as as hepatitis B, smallpox, polio etc., what we can make is only a vaccine. The person who takes the vaccine for a particular disease, if not yet affected with that disease, will not get affected with a that disease in future. disease has not happened yet, will not be ...