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Vital Vaccines

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Have you wondered how COVID-19 vaccines were developed so rapidly ? The normal period of time for manufacturing a vaccine takes 12 years in total, 8 years to research the pathogen, and another 3-4 years of trial, error and production. Earlier, the vaccine development involved a series of steps, but in the case of the Corona-Virus Vaccine, the field of computational biology and international cooperation helped the biologists, computer scientists and the regulators accelerate the whole process without compromises on any protocols and any step. The government's ultimate plan is to resume normal activities after at least 75% of the population has been vaccinated with the current vaccines. In the next 3 years, when the Covid virus has mutated multiple times, with multiple variants, a “polyvalent vaccine” will be supplied. With the buzz of compulsory universal Vaccination all around, let us first understand the basic biology of vaccines.  History : The first vaccine was manufactured in 1