Ali Hasan
Why have Vaccine when you can have a Pill?
Covid-19 shook the world in 2020 and proved to be one of the biggest disasters we faced in the recent years. Initially people thought that it will only affect china but later it spread throughout the world. As drama continued and the world went into lockdown, humans rushed to produce a vaccine, test it, mass produce it, transport it and get people vaccinated as soon as possible.
But it was not humanly possible to mass produce or transport the vaccine as it had several challenges in doing so. People thought we will take a long time before we can actually get our hands on a vaccine but a new revolutionary idea has been presented that changes the entire complexion of the scenario.
Now a firm has announced that it can produce a pill and give it to people which will have the same effects as receiving a vaccine. The pill will act and mimic the same response as the vaccine and will solve a lot of transportation and production problems. This will also eliminate the need of a medical professional as consuming a pill is a lot easier than getting yourself vaccinated.
Anand Mahindra took to Twitter and said “Don’t know if there’s any validity in this report. But would the Nobel Academy please give them a Nobel if they succeed? Probably one of the most vital innovations the world needs right now…”
He uploaded what looks like a news piece which claimed that a small biotech firm in West Sussex, England is working on putting a Covid-19 vaccine into a simple pill. Mahindra called it one of the most vital innovations needed in the world at the time.
The text of the snippet reads: “IosBio, which is based in Burgess Hill, has developed a method of putting vaccines into pill form and is working with a US firm that has made an injectable vaccine that is going through human trials.” This pill was seen to be effective in tests on monkeys, it claimed.
Turns out, the oral vaccine will begin clinical trials on Americans this month and ImmunityBio is applying for regulatory approval to run tests in Britain too, according to an article in The New Zealand Herald.
“A pill-based vaccine would be far easier to transport and administer than injections and could drastically speed up the race to immunise the world’s population,” the article stated. “With our capsule you wouldn’t need medical professionals to administer the vaccine, you could send this out on Amazon Prime and have everyone vaccinated by Saturday,” iosBio’s chief executive Wayne Channing was quoted as saying.
Do you agree with Anand Mahindra? Should they be given a Nobel Prize if they’re successful in making a pill that can work like a vaccine? Do tell us in the comments. Your comments are valuable to us and we’ll be replying to the ones which we find interesting.
