{"id":71527,"date":"2020-12-03T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=71527"},"modified":"2021-05-08T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T10:38:24","slug":"purpose-of-the-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/purpose-of-the-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose of the vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context-<\/strong> The challenges vaccine poses to qualify as a \u2018public health\u2019 intervention in India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the purpose of vaccination? <\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Individual prevention- <\/strong>&#8211; The ability to develop immunity by producing antibodies among those individuals who have taken a vaccine shot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It builds an adaptive immune system<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>To achieve herd immunity<\/strong>&#8211; It is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Herd immunity refers to community protection.<\/li>\n<li>The threshold coverage is estimated to be around 60% for COVID-19 vaccine to achieve population-level immunity.<\/li>\n<li>The idea of herd community is to protect the vulnerable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><strong>What are the concerns related to vaccination?<\/strong><\/h6>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Safe immunization<\/strong>&#8211; There are three major elements of immunization safety.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Health care providers must be concerned with the safety of vaccines themselves (their composition),<\/li>\n<li>Administration of the vaccination (handling, scheduling, and injections),<\/li>\n<li>And surveillance and evaluation of the immunization program, including documentation of vaccine efficacy and the probability of adverse events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Economic concern<\/strong>-The huge economic resources will be needed to make the vaccine available for a large population.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lack of infrastructure<\/strong>&#8211; Vaccines require cold chain infrastructure for storage. Logistical and Infrastructural issues in storage of vaccines hampering it\u2019s penetrability in the rural hinterland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost-<\/strong> If open market forces determine the cost of the vaccine and affordability then, the section of society most vulnerable to the disease would get left out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Credibility-<\/strong> ears regarding safety and credibility can be almost impossible obstacles to overcome and must be addressed head-on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0What are the challenges related to population based vaccination programme?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Priority-<\/strong> Within the country, it is certainly not clear who should be treated first or it should be determined by need, affordability, vulnerability or some other criterion or a combination of all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The outcome is the clear<\/strong>&#8211; If this process target only specific population group then its very purpose will be defeated as the pandemic can infect all groups similarly.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>It is safe to demonstrate the success of vaccination as a public health intervention in a small population, like a block or a district, before scaling it up for the national level.<\/li>\n<li>However, if herd immunity is not the focus, then the key purpose of COVID-19 vaccines will be to ensure individual immunity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Protect the vulnerable<\/strong>&#8211; Use the first limited supplies of vaccines to protect those most in need, without worrying about the more robust members of the \u201cherd\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context- The challenges vaccine poses to qualify as a \u2018public health\u2019 intervention in India. 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