COVID Vaccines and Global Cooperation

     "If we make a vaccine, everybody can be treated, and everything will go back to normal." Wouldn't that be nice. Unfortunately, it is not this simple to produce and deliver vaccines, especially in the case of a pandemic. Producing and delivering Covid vaccines (if ever developed) would not be an easy task. In order for this to be done effectively, there has to be global integration and cooperation.

    There are so many reasons why there has to be global integration in order for a vaccine against Covid to be produced. Countries should be working together to produce a vaccine already. This should definitely not be a competition to see who can create a vaccine first or who can create a better vaccine. Different countries should come together, as they each have different perspectives leading to more innovative ideas, to form a vaccine as well as a plan for how to deliver the vaccine to regions across the world. That being said countries do have different resources. So for example one country could create the vaccine while another tests it, and another mass produces it. Also one country could produce the syringes, another provide containers to store the medicine, and another provide vehicles or means of transport for the vaccine.

    While it will be helpful in various ways if countries cooperate to develop and deliver the Covid vaccine, their are various issues that could possibly occur as well. One issue could involve the methods of shipping the vaccines because of the temperature requirement that the vaccine may need to be kept at. Also timing and amount would have to be essential between countries to ensure that each country is getting a fair amount of not only the vaccine itself but also medical devices, such as syringes to distribute the vaccine, as well as shipping the vaccine out to all countries in the same time frame. 

    Overall I believe that countries should put aside their differences and try to get this pandemic under control. So many times in the past nations have failed due to lack of cooperation. With an unexpected event like the coronavirus, the fastest and most effective way to develop a vaccine is to cooperate to produce, deliver, and distribute the vaccine. Will this end up happening? No one is sure. Still to this day, there are wars and feuds between nations. Regardless of the fact, countries needs to notice the bigger enemy -the virus- and use global integration and cooperation to hopefully bring an end to the coronavirus.