US Chamber of Commerce noted the heavy toll the Covid pandemic was inflicting and asked White House to release millions of doses as well as other life-saving support to countries.
Titled ‘#AstraZeneca vaccine disinformation on Twitter’, study was conducted by researchers from Poland’s Kozminski University & was uploaded on preprint portal Medrxiv on 16 April.
Every drug maker wants to sell to rich countries, where profit margins are highest. But what of lower middle-income nations, where largest slice of the world’s population lives?
Covax, the initiative designed to level global access to Covid vaccine, is highly reliant on AstraZeneca. Pfizer and Moderna shots are more expensive and harder to store.
There is a chance that the AstraZeneca vaccine is associated with an increased risk of a rare condition characterized by blood clotting coupled with a fall in platelet counts.
UK’s drug regulator is investigating rare cases of blood clots in adults who were given Oxford-AstraZeneca shot. No safety issues have arisen in children’s trial, Oxford says.
With the new reports, the rate of incidents with the AstraZeneca shot in the UK is about 1 in 600,000. The vaccine is under mounting scrutiny & has faced dwindling support in Europe.
India should have secured greater savings by pressing Russia for prices nearer the cap while sustaining high volumes. This would have preserved strategic autonomy and served economic logic.
One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.
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