The Modi govt has asked ICMR to fast-track the trial for Covaxin, a Covid vaccine, and hopes to roll it out in six weeks, in time for Independence Day.
In a letter Wednesday, govt says efforts should be made to set up camps, using mobile vans, in high incidence areas to collect samples of symptomatic patients and their contacts.
Researchers at the Oxford University conducting the RECOVERY trial said the drug combination did not show any significant benefit in reducing Covid mortality.
Agra administration & doctors admit death rate is a concern, have increased testing to ensure patients come for treatment before reaching advanced stage.
ICMR’s Covid programme has proved to be a flag-bearer of Atmanirbhar Bharat as we have worked in close coordination with the domestic healthcare industry to make India self-sufficient in testing.
ASHA workers and ANMs will collect samples from their allotted wards in each of the 11 Delhi districts. Samples of 20,000 people will be tested to check for IgG antibody.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Too much theory. Let us be practical. Phase 1 in the current environment can be done in 5 centers, each having 20 volunteers and can be done in 3 weeks, as getting 20 healthy volunteers per center is not difficult. Then taking it to phase 2 with 500 patients have 25 patients per site in 20 sites. Again getting these patients in 20 hospitals in the current environment is not difficult. If successful, phase 3 with 50 sites having 50 patients per hospital in the current environment is not difficult. If planned well, completing each next phase successful in early phase, the clinical program can be done 3 to 4 months. With a pandemic situation the author should not be talking about theory clinical trial stages in vaccine development. As I am a clinical trial specialist, having done so many clinical trials I can say that if done properly and if vaccine is potent enough, it can be of great help to world.
During emergencies on a very few occasions vaccines are used on small population after completion of phase 2 clinical trials… It was never successful. This ICMR approach may only fulfill political requirements… nothing more than that… THERE IS NOTHING PESSIMISTIC ABOUT MY STATEMENT
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Too much theory. Let us be practical. Phase 1 in the current environment can be done in 5 centers, each having 20 volunteers and can be done in 3 weeks, as getting 20 healthy volunteers per center is not difficult. Then taking it to phase 2 with 500 patients have 25 patients per site in 20 sites. Again getting these patients in 20 hospitals in the current environment is not difficult. If successful, phase 3 with 50 sites having 50 patients per hospital in the current environment is not difficult. If planned well, completing each next phase successful in early phase, the clinical program can be done 3 to 4 months. With a pandemic situation the author should not be talking about theory clinical trial stages in vaccine development. As I am a clinical trial specialist, having done so many clinical trials I can say that if done properly and if vaccine is potent enough, it can be of great help to world.
During emergencies on a very few occasions vaccines are used on small population after completion of phase 2 clinical trials… It was never successful. This ICMR approach may only fulfill political requirements… nothing more than that… THERE IS NOTHING PESSIMISTIC ABOUT MY STATEMENT