Overcoming vaccine hesitancy the key to a successful Covid-19 inoculation drive
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A week into its Covid-19 vaccination drive, India needs to overcome its vaccine hesitancy that is hobbling efforts.
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The bigger challenge to tackle hesitancy, though, might well be when the vaccine drive is opened to those beyond frontline workers.
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Please do come. There is no queue, it won’t take long,” Akash Kumar Jha says persuasively, as he speaks on the phone to a doctor at New Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. It’s one of the many calls the hospital’s first officer for vaccination is making on Thursday morning to coax colleagues into coming in and rolling up their sleeves for a shot of Covaxin, one of the two vaccines India has approved to immunise the country against Covid-19. Jha has good reason to be as convincing as possible it had been five days since India launched its vaccine drive but the numbers at RML Hospital were not encourag
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Karnataka Govt Doctors Association Seeks Choice to Pick Covid-19 Vaccine
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An association of government doctors in Karnataka has demanded that health care workers be allowed their choice of the COVID-19 vaccine, saying there have been some concerns among a section of the fraternity over the present arrangement for making available the doses. State Health Minister K Sudhakar, meanwhile, dismissed as far from truth reports that there was hesitation among some sections to take the vaccine. Since January 16 when the coronavirus vaccination drive was rolled out across the country, two vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin, are being administered to frontline health workers. In a letter to Sudhakar, the Association of House surgeons, Post Graduates and Super Speciality Residents of Govt. Medical and Dental Colleges said it has received information from various parts of the state that resident doctors, including in some medical colleges, were concerned they had been given Cova
A large number of resident doctors in six districts of Karnataka have voiced their objection to taking the Covaxin shot developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech and have asked the government to use the Covishield vaccine instead.