Winding Diplomacy Experience in Search of Vaccines

As soon as these two issues were resolved, there was a need for therapeutic drugs, which could help reduce the impact on infected patients.

A boy receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at Discovery vaccination site in Sandton, Johannesburg, on December 15, 2021. – Two shots of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine offers around 70 percent protection against severe disease from Omicron, according to results of a study published December 14, 2021 in South Africa.The emergence of the highly mutated variant, first detected in South Africa last month, sparked fears that it could cause severe disease, be more contagious or could evade vaccines.

The year 2020 had just begun when there appeared news about a new, unknown disease hitting Wuhan city, Hubei province, China. Hundreds of people were exposed to the disease. Some had even died. Time seemed to go faster than usual. In mid-March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the mysterious disease, later known as Covid-19, as a pandemic.