Letters to the Editor December 31, 2020
December 31, 2020 00:02 IST
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December 31, 2020 00:02 IST
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No let-up in vigil
Billions in investment and the reputation of labs and companies ride on any vaccine of consequence. Yet, in the case of the COVID-19 virus, the speed and breadth of its spread have compelled extreme time compression to find vaccines. Hitherto in earlier pandemics, mutations were factored in as we could take a few years to evolve a vaccine. But we are in an unenviable position today wherein a strain variant has come up even as one or more of vaccines are already being administered. Pragmatism lies in assuming that this could be a fresh pandemic altogether. Thus, the need for precautions ought to be even more imperative and measures far stringent. Mysterious being the ways of nature we can seek remedy largely through abundant caution.