Coronavirus SARS-Cov2 (COVID-19)

[Kumar]

Good article on current vaccine status!

Why are we not using domestic vaccine producers to manufacture covaxin?

https://www.republicworld.com/world-new ... tions.html

I think india should consider emergency approval for J&J as well and not try to do bridge study

[suresh]

I think india should consider emergency approval for J&J as well and not try to do bridge study

Your prayers have been answered. India to fast-track emergency-use approval for foreign-produced Covid vaccines

[jai_in_canada]

India rides in to rescue J&J from wasted inventory after Australia backs out of buying the J&J vaccine.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/13/austral ... ccine.html

I thought India was the vaccine manufacturing powerhouse that had 60% of the world's manufacturing capacity.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/intern ... 046230.cms

[Kumar]

I think india should consider emergency approval for J&J as well and not try to do bridge study

Your prayers have been answered. India to fast-track emergency-use approval for foreign-produced Covid vaccines

Wow! That is awesome! J&J could potentially have some of the same issues as astrazaneca! But hopefully they have already started manufacturing locally

[Kumar]

India rides in to rescue J&J from wasted inventory after Australia backs out of buying the J&J vaccine.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/13/austral ... ccine.html

I thought India was the vaccine manufacturing powerhouse that had 60% of the world's manufacturing capacity.

I think SII was brave enough to manufacture astrazaneca before approval! We may be in much worse shape otherwise! I think all those countries with much lower covid cases can afford to choose the vaccine! Unfortunately,, that is not the case for india now

Wish, we had started manufacturing lines for JJ as soon as ir was approved in US! Potentially NOVAVaxx could be rolled out by SIi soon(it is yet to be approved abroad though, expected approval in 2nd quarter)

[depleter]

Novavax has yet get the nod From both US and UK(UK by may be end of this month while US by early next month.). Did it get the nod from any other specified countries??

[jayakris]

Your prayers have been answered. India to fast-track emergency-use approval for foreign-produced Covid vaccines

Good move. Just get it all out there. Let all vaccine makers everywhere (in India and abroad) ramp up productions, and let anybody who can afford imported vaccines take it. Too many people are dying, for all these know-it-alls to talk about side effects and blood clots and all that BS. (And I notice Dr. Kang conveniently changing tune and saying "efficacy doesn't matter" now. We haven't forgotten, Doctor, your statements on Covaxin's efficacy!)

I have a classmate of mine from IITM who is in Kochi who was told that he cannot take Covishield or Covaxin because he is allergic to penicillin and crustacean meat. I believe Pfizer does not have this issue, but he can't get it in India. Now, hopefully Pfizer and Moderna will send some to India for those who can afford them.

My wife went to India a couple of weeks ago (just before California opened it up for her age group). She thought she could get a vaccine in India for being over 45. But due to doubts on whether she would be able to get a second shot before returning in 6 weeks time, she didn't take one. She can't come back to the US and get a second shot of either of the Indian vaccines. So she is stuck there and getting scared with all the cases all around. If single-shot J&J (or Pfizer/Moderna) were available in India, she would run out now and take it!

[depleter]

WTH......with the current rate those numbers will only be enough for 10-12 days. That's an obvious shortage right there.

[jayakris]

WTH......with the current rate those numbers will only be enough for 10-12 days. That's an obvious shortage right there.

I hope he made a mistake. That is 36.8M doses. Yeah, enough for just over 10 days. What about the last week of April then??

Anyway, this is not the doses in stock or anything. Or may be it doesn't include what is to be supplied by end of next week by the manufacturers. I think he was just stating what is scheduled right now, to be sent to the states. They had better send it to the states by the end of this week and schedule another 25M doses to be sent by the end of next week for the last week of April. I am sure they will. But come on, these guys need to realize that people are observing closely what they say.

[Omkara]

I am on a call with an expert . But his opinion is that India will be vaccinating minimum 6m people in June. Problem is what do we do with these capacities once the vaccination program is over in two years. Raw material is not a problem. Hope some of what he says is true. Minimum 6m a day would make me very happy.

[jayakris]

I am on a call with an expert . But his opinion is that India will be vaccinating minimum 6m people in June. Problem is what do we do with these capacities once the vaccination program is over in two years.

Oh no... Vaccinations on this, most probably, are not going to end in 2 years. It will go on and on with booster shots every 6 months and all that. Maybe for several years or for ever! This category of virus is here to stay with its mutations. Let us get the first vaccine in and reduce the case count and deaths. But Covid isn't going away that soon. The program of making vaccines that handle mutations will continue. Annual or biannual vaccinations will need to go on for a while, if not for ever.

[Omkara]

So you agree the end will be that one fine day, the virus just vanishes..... Till then it will keep coming back in some form or the other....

[jai_in_canada]

I think all those countries with much lower covid cases can afford to choose the vaccine! Unfortunately,, that is not the case for india now

So this just broke now. The US FDA is also calling for a pause in the use of the J&J vaccine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56733715

Great news for India, isn't it? Now they can get even more vaccines that others don't want.

So much for the theory that only countries with low case counts have the luxury to pick and choose the vaccines for the citizens. Whereas for India, heck, jab whatever you can get your hands on.

[jai_in_canada]

I am on a call with an expert . But his opinion is that India will be vaccinating minimum 6m people in June. Problem is what do we do with these capacities once the vaccination program is over in two years.

Oh no... Vaccinations on this, most probably, are not going to end in 2 years. It will go on and on with booster shots every 6 months and all that. Maybe for several years or for ever!

Yup. And they're already setting expectations that vaccines alone will not end this pandemic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/id ... da6b0acb3f

I love how it went from "3 week lockdown will flatten the curve" in March 2020, to "we have to rush the vaccine to get back to normal" in December 2020, to "hey, don't be expecting that this will end when every one is vaccinated" in Apr 2021.

Good for Big Pharma shareholders.

[jai_in_canada]

Guys, wake up and smell the coffee. Stop getting caught up in the latest frenzied theories. Step back and look at the evolution of the messaging. Tell me that there hasn't been Incredible incompetence and dishonesty. So suddenly now the powers that be know what they're doing and are being honest with us? This vaccine boondoggle is going to be a worldwide scandal. Mark my words. And the virus tsunami waves will keep on coming.

P.S. Jay, I need one of your pick-me-ups again!!