Normally introduction of a new vaccine takes at least 18 months and only in rare exceptional circumstances, it can be introduced in the market in 12 months.

Most pharmaceutical companies are scared that coron virus will last in the circulation only for 6 months and will never come back like SARS and therefore, why spend billions of dollars in research.

There are postulations that COVID-19 is a part of bioterrorism or the virus was being manufactured in one of the Chinese laboratories.

These speculations basically come from Hollywood and Bollywood movies which show that the villain is ready to manufacture a virus and the hero of the film will produce an antivirus within no time to save the community.

But remember, these are fictions and not a reality.

If it was a reality, then the lab will make a vaccine first, both to commercially exploit it, and save their own people.

The Chinese government in this epidemic has locked down its own 5 crore people, all

susceptible to get the disease. The expected deaths with the current rate of spread is 5000.

It doesnt make sense for any government or a terrorist body to make bioweapons without making an antidote for it.

Most of the WhatsApp’s are spreading these messages for them to become viral.

People compare them with what has been written in the fiction stories in the past and any similarities are a mere coincidence.

Remember, viruses like SARS, smallpox are still in the labs and Bollywood and Hollywood movies will still go on making fiction stories on these viruses.

Dr KK Aggarwal

President CMAAO, HCFI and Past National President IMA