We have an opportunity to adapt our businesses in ways that shield them from sudden adversities As the covid-19 pandemic rages across the world, finding a vaccine for it has become the holy grail.

Vaccines are curious things. They do not directly cure a disease, but help us do it. They introduce a weakened virus or its proteins or toxins to our body.

This helps us learn how to create antibodies against these, so that if the virus actually strikes in full strength, we can identify it and generate the same antibodies to destroy it.

Thus, a vaccine trains the human body to destroy the virus, rather than attacking it itself. Covid-19 has been a classical Black Swan event, both unpredictable and devastating in its impact.

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