Vaccines <\/a>protect for future generations against otherwise preventable diseases. In the 1980s and 90s, local communities in South Africa were dealing clusters of tuberculosis affecting children across the country in low-income demographics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, the introduction of the BCG vaccine, save the lives of possibly millions of South African children, preventing them from infection with this deadly bacterium. As a result of the vaccine program in South Africa, today’s tuberculosis infection rate remains low among the countries children and adult population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the globe, any hope for gaining herd immunity to the disease lies in the invention and distribution of a vaccine to the global population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, medical experts state that a vaccine is still well in the future, and we can expect it no sooner than 18 months. The reality is that vaccines are incredibly challenging to manufacture and test, and we should be waiting for more than a decade before we ever see a vaccine available for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n
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