Top 10 Science Stories Of 2021

Thrilling Science and technology discoveries, hurdles in the fight against Covid and Tadvancements in space exploration defined the past year

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The Covid-19 vaccine

Last year the biggest science story of the year was that scientists developed two mRNA Covid vaccines in record time. The Covid-19 vaccine has now become available for children as young as five. The fastest vaccine development-to deployment period before this was the Mumps vaccine in the 1960s and that took four years.

Only 8 percent of individuals in low-income countries have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and a WHO Africa report from this fall said that on that continent, less than 10 percent of countries would hit the goal of vaccinating at least 40 percent of their citizens by the end of the year. Globally, less than 60 percent of the population has been vaccinated. The holes in vaccination coverage will allow the virus to continue to kill a large number of individuals, and allow an environment where possibly other dangerous variants can emerge.

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