Waves after Waves: Three factors which will largely decide the course of the pandemic and why vaccination success is even dependent on it
It seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel as countries are only able to tackle the virus briefly after which the virus comes back with more virulence to cause more financial and health implications. Governments, Businesses and people are clueless of how to tackle the virus worldwide and just when a successes story or travel bubble come up, it is followed up by new waves of infection and another tragedy for the bubbles to burst.
There are three factors which everyone needs to be aware of, out of which the first one is not in our control and the next two are totally in our control which will decide the course of the pandemic. Vaccinations do help in minimizing the infections but there are variety of vaccines with various percentage of efficacy and breakthrough infections are always possible. Also there is great vaccine disparity around the world with some countries especially the wealthy ones able to vaccinate their population earlier than the poorer countries who needs to do catch up. Thus the three factors are going to be crucial as given below even for vaccines to be successful.
1. Viral mutation