[deanhills]

@deanhills He basically meant that it would promote competition among nations to promote research and produce their own vaccine. Practically, it'll take months and maybe close to a year to get the discovered vaccine into circulation and get it to every common citizen.

Thx @sohamb03. That was my understanding too, but I questioned it. As that competition was already there long before Russia brought out its vaccine. And it was more a case of Russia joining in with the competition than other countries now wanting to jump in. Difference is that other countries are just much more careful in the development of the vaccine. There are still so many unknowns about the Covid 19 virus - like scientists haven't been able to clearly define how the virus works. For example, anti-bodies disappearing after the patient has recovered from Covid a few months on. Patients can be reinfected. Covid 19 also has different reactions in different patients. So far countries have been careful to work with the World Health Organization and other leading research agencies and follow all of the steps. I'm not a research expert on Covid 19, but my common sense says that some of the other countries may even be ahead of where Russia was in the development of their own vaccine, when Russia announced its vaccine. Big problem with the slower pace in other countries is that they fully admit that Covid 19 virus in its own has not been fully investigated yet. That investigation is also very much ongoing, and to create a vaccine has to make allowances for all of the anomalies of Covid 19. We still don't know the virus that well - it's not a clearly defined virus because of how tricky it works. I'd far rather go for a vaccine that has been better investigated and has the blessing of an authority like the WHO or any of the other leading Public Health Agencies of the world.