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COVID-19 VACCINE: QUESTIONS ON EVERYONE’S MIND

16 Dec 2020

A s of December 2020, worldwide around 57 vaccine trials are underway, with 17 trials in Phase 2 or 3. No vaccine trial has so far successfully completed a Phase 3 trial, although, several vaccines in Phase 3 have been approved for emergency use in various countries. Let us break...

FDA RECOMMENDS EMERGENCY APPROVAL OF PFIZER VACCINE IN US

12 Dec 2020

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel has given the nod for the emergency use of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech in the USA. According to the US media, the FDA is likely to provide an EUA for the vaccine on Saturday. This approval is a mechanism to facilitate...

MAKING DEAD VIRUS KILL LIVE ONES: A CASE FOR INACTIVATED COVID-19 VACCINES

12 Dec 2020

Among the vaccines against Covid-19 likely to become available in India in early 2021, Covaxin is an indigenous vaccine, being developed by Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL), Hyderabad, in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi. The candidate is an inactivated whole virion vaccine. Most of...

We are at the doorstep of getting a coronavirus vaccine: Dr V.K. Paul

12 Dec 2020

New Delhi: In an exclusive interview with The Daily Guardian, Dr V.K. Paul, Member (Health) at NITI Aayog and the head of the National Expert Group for Vaccine Administration, spoke about the availability of vaccines in India and the Co-Win platform, which has been developed to aid the vaccination drive...