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Desperate situations need innovative,unorthodox measures. The way the disease is spreading India with its vast population is likely to record the maximum deaths overtaking the US. Add to it the economic misery the nation is going to experience . There are several candidate vaccines now in development. It will take years for completing formalities of clinical trials before release. I wold suggest we identify three or four phase 2 cleared vaccine and start vaccinating the vulnerable populations on a “voluntary basis after informed consent”. Review the results on a weekly basis and make the necessary course corrections. The people refusing to take up the challenge will act as controle group. In a few weeks we will identify the right vaccine. The companies should be given indemnity by the Govt. I am sure there won’t be any dearth of volunteers.
she says as below:
the sequences also show an extreme level of similarity with naturally-occurring coronaviruses found in animals.
i want to ask her why this natural occurence have not happened since world War 2.
. With millions of people having affected all over the world, comparing this with previous viruses are absolute trash.
Not even remotely death rates of current virus is anywhere near the earlier viruses. Were they not natural viruses that they
killed so few people and this one ‘ Horrendous’ ?
taking about low percentage of death rate when three lakhs people have died and still getting counted – all nonsense.
her contension that this Virus is not lab made need to be examined by structural biologist like Ada Yonnath or Venky Ramakrishnan
Who has utterly failed…. we cannot rule something ‘fishy”
She thought it was a good idea to discuss vaccines on stage with Jaggi Vasudev who is utterly unqualified, who then proceeded to spew hearsay fear mongering misinformation as expected to make himself appear smart.
I am not confident about her judgment. UN and WHO is too politically controlled in my view.
Can mrs swaminathan vouch that this pandemic is due to a natural corona virus originating from a natural host and going through a intermediate host and then infecting humans ,if sufficient proof is with WHO then it should be made public
Respected madam,
We do understand your constraints ,but as a scientist you should clarify the source of the virus ,if the source of SARS, MESARS,EBOLA,NIPAH, are clear why it is doubt ful in Covid_19 .Please donot blame the poor bats ,all scientific community know those creatures harbour a lot of virus, Can you deny that they were not harbouring these corona viruses earlier, then why such pandemics like Covid_19 was not there ,was not it easy to find vaccine against SARS and ME SARS more easier than present Covid _19 which is also from a corona virus if it is from natural virus then why the scientists are so much confused and how it is becoming difficult to forecast the disease pattern this virus is producing , so there us a lot of questions to be answered.
You just sit quietly and enjoy. The world has lost trust on chinas agent WHO. Your article reconfirms that.
Also you are nobody to comment how life will be going forward. At least yours will be good with the huge money you all have got from China to hide this pandemic from the world.
More of Someone favouring reply … don’t wanna defamE any particular region or a state or a country ……it’s quite different wat d world is saying and it is quite baseless like she said it wud b seasonal and it not originated in lab in Wuhan …. whole world know wats d truth and she is trying to change our minds by writing such weird statement
First these WHO people hide the details and truth of this pandemic virus from the world and now they are suggesting the world that how to emerge out of this situation…… Such a two faces people they are…..
thq
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Desperate situations need innovative,unorthodox measures. The way the disease is spreading India with its vast population is likely to record the maximum deaths overtaking the US. Add to it the economic misery the nation is going to experience . There are several candidate vaccines now in development. It will take years for completing formalities of clinical trials before release. I wold suggest we identify three or four phase 2 cleared vaccine and start vaccinating the vulnerable populations on a “voluntary basis after informed consent”. Review the results on a weekly basis and make the necessary course corrections. The people refusing to take up the challenge will act as controle group. In a few weeks we will identify the right vaccine. The companies should be given indemnity by the Govt. I am sure there won’t be any dearth of volunteers.
she says as below:
the sequences also show an extreme level of similarity with naturally-occurring coronaviruses found in animals.
i want to ask her why this natural occurence have not happened since world War 2.
. With millions of people having affected all over the world, comparing this with previous viruses are absolute trash.
Not even remotely death rates of current virus is anywhere near the earlier viruses. Were they not natural viruses that they
killed so few people and this one ‘ Horrendous’ ?
taking about low percentage of death rate when three lakhs people have died and still getting counted – all nonsense.
her contension that this Virus is not lab made need to be examined by structural biologist like Ada Yonnath or Venky Ramakrishnan
Who has utterly failed…. we cannot rule something ‘fishy”
She thought it was a good idea to discuss vaccines on stage with Jaggi Vasudev who is utterly unqualified, who then proceeded to spew hearsay fear mongering misinformation as expected to make himself appear smart.
I am not confident about her judgment. UN and WHO is too politically controlled in my view.
Can mrs swaminathan vouch that this pandemic is due to a natural corona virus originating from a natural host and going through a intermediate host and then infecting humans ,if sufficient proof is with WHO then it should be made public
Respected madam,
We do understand your constraints ,but as a scientist you should clarify the source of the virus ,if the source of SARS, MESARS,EBOLA,NIPAH, are clear why it is doubt ful in Covid_19 .Please donot blame the poor bats ,all scientific community know those creatures harbour a lot of virus, Can you deny that they were not harbouring these corona viruses earlier, then why such pandemics like Covid_19 was not there ,was not it easy to find vaccine against SARS and ME SARS more easier than present Covid _19 which is also from a corona virus if it is from natural virus then why the scientists are so much confused and how it is becoming difficult to forecast the disease pattern this virus is producing , so there us a lot of questions to be answered.
I doubt many of her opinions.
She appears to be more of a spokesperson for China, like her Boss.
Ma’am..
You just sit quietly and enjoy. The world has lost trust on chinas agent WHO. Your article reconfirms that.
Also you are nobody to comment how life will be going forward. At least yours will be good with the huge money you all have got from China to hide this pandemic from the world.
Above people who are commenting on WHO are still busy blaming WHO soon they will be contracted by Covid19 if they do not follow WHO instructions
More of Someone favouring reply … don’t wanna defamE any particular region or a state or a country ……it’s quite different wat d world is saying and it is quite baseless like she said it wud b seasonal and it not originated in lab in Wuhan …. whole world know wats d truth and she is trying to change our minds by writing such weird statement
First these WHO people hide the details and truth of this pandemic virus from the world and now they are suggesting the world that how to emerge out of this situation…… Such a two faces people they are…..
Sekhar Gupta is very fascinated with Herd Immunity…. I hope you got the answer…
is she really qualified to talk ..
but WHO is going to get extinct soon