Question

Mona Dubbins, RN works for a profit-making biologicals development firm (SciTec)that has recently collaborated with Robert DeSalle, a vaccine researcher at a well-known medical school in the Northeast. DeSalle has been working on developing a vaccine against the Coronavirus that uses live Coronavirus, arguing that whole, weakened viruses have been very effective with such diseases as polio and smallpox in the past. By deleting certain genes from Chiroptera Coronavirus, DeSalle has created a highly-effective bat vaccine. He is now eager to use the same principles in the development of a vaccine for people. Working with SciTec, he has engineered a type of Coronavirus that can infect human cells but lacks three of the real virus' nine genes. He claims that this vaccine, once available to the masses, will outperform all other vaccines in development. Coronavirus experts agree.

Miss Dubbins and other members of the research development team, however, are concerned that a vaccine using live but weakened Coronavirus might cause Coronavirus in people with impaired immune systems or help the Coronavirus evolve toward more virulent forms once it is in wide use.

1- Should SciTec become involved in producing an effective vaccine that will undoubtedly make some people sick?

2-Or should SciTec work toward developing a vaccine that is safe but not as effective in protecting people from the disease?

Answer 1

Vaccines help develop immunity by imitating an infection. This type of infection, however, almost never causes illness, but it does cause the immune system to produce T-lymphocytes and antibodies. Sometimes, after getting a vaccine, the imitation infection can cause minor symptoms, such as fever. Such minor symptoms are normal and should be expected as the body builds immunity.

There are many types of vaccination.

Here SciTec is making live attenuated vaccine.These vaccines contain a version of the living virus or bacteria that has been weakened so that it does not cause serious disease in people with healthy immune systems. Because live, attenuated vaccines are the closest thing to a natural infection, they are good teachers for the immune system. Examples of live, attenuated vaccines include measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and varicella (chickenpox) vaccine. Even though they are very effective, not everyone can receive these vaccines. Children with weakened immune systems—for example, those who are undergoing chemotherapy cannot get live vaccines.

Researches have shown that in case of corona virus rate spreading infection than death is very high. People with age 80+ have 14.8% death rate.

If young people will be immunized then spreading rate will decrease. Older people who are affected will get more medical facilities due to decrease load on hospitals. The chain of contamination will be breaked.

So, I think SciTec should become involved in producing an effective vaccine.

But some precaution should be maintained while giving this vaccine. People with weakened immune system can not get this vaccine ..