Analysis of the COVID-19 virus: Conformation, treatments, and vaccine production

Abstract

In the year of 2020, COVID-19 pandemic threatened the safety of entire human race. The virus has incredibly strong ability to spread and mutate which quickly spread all over the world and resulted in a perhaps the most serious pandemic in human history. During the early stage of the pandemic there was no viable treatment or antibody, non-pharmaceutical has been carried out trying to contain the spread of the infection. Although right now, some tested vaccines have been distributed in multiple countries, the effectiveness the possible side effects of the vaccine are still waiting to be verified. Mankind still needs a certain amount of time to reach large-scale immunity and may even forever co-exist with this coronavirus. It took the entire world almost a year to develop effective vaccines against this virus. With such developed medical technologies, what makes it so difficult to develop a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus? What kind of virus exactly is COVID-19, and did we sum up any experience from this pandemic to deal with the next possible epidemic more efficiently? This article will explain these problems in a comprehensive and detailed way. © 2022 Author(s).