Covid Vaccines and Global Cooperation

 Making a vaccine is a hassle. Making a vaccine for a virus that is quickly taking over the Earth and fast tracking the entire process is insane to even imagine. All the safety and precautions that they still have to follow up with are being rushed and cause a question of concern for how the public will respond to a vaccine produced this quickly. You could say some people are glad that it was manufactured in this fashion with such speed so people can begin protecting their families and friends who are more at risk. However, you could also say that people are going to reject the idea that they made a good trustworthy vaccine because of how fast it was. These completely lopsided responses could illicit some arguments and some public protests in extreme scenarios.

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This isn't the only problem though. Another dilemma is the distribution of the vaccine. For the portion of people who want the vaccination, it'll be difficult to acquire it from their local pharmacies and doctor's offices. The primary companies who are producing the vaccine are reporting that it has to be stored and transported below freezing levels. This requires extra attentive care to keeping a certain temperature and ensuring the vaccine will still be effective when reaching the patients. Storage containers full of medicine will be transported from facility to facility and being dispersed to other local hospitals while ensuring proper temperature storage. If not properly handled, the vaccines might not be effective anymore and eventually destroy the public's trust the vaccines really do work. It is not only intercountry/intercontinental transportation that has to distribute effectively, it's also global distribution that has to be directed efficiently and effectively. If a single country makes all the vaccines, or at least most of them, then that country would have to communicate with other countries about their transportation and amount of product they need. If all of this is able to work in tandem with not too many conflicts, then just maybe could vaccine distribution run smoothly.