COVID Vaccines and Global Cooperation

 Producing and developing COVID vaccines is a global endeavor because the vaccine not only needs to be mass-produced, but there also needs to be a widespread distribution of the vaccines. This can be difficult to some extent because the vaccines need to be kept at a specific temperature while they're being transported, so there also need to be a large supply of dry ice available at factories and shipping locations that will allow the vaccines to be kept at their specific temperature while they're being distributed across the globe. Other people and places are involved in production and distribution because the vaccine can't just be manufactured in one place. Once one place knows how to make the vaccine, they can relay that information to other pharmaceutical companies that can manufacture it around the globe. From there, it can be transported to other places, which is essential because it takes the help of delivery people, people in air/sea travel, and people in healthcare settings to distribute the vaccine.

Timing is also an important aspect of the production and development of the vaccine because all of the countries need to work together; syringes and vials may be produced by one country, and the vaccine may be produced in another, so communication and cooperation are needed among the globe to determine when there will be a mass supply of vials and syringes so that the vaccine can start being produced and put into said vials and syringes for distribution.