The EU and UK also grappled with its blood-clot risk briefly, but found that its protection easily justified its use. The big threat we face is covid, not clots.
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Vaccinations numbers were at 1.82 million on May 1. Leaving aside Sunday (439,906), when vaccination numbers are usually low, total inoculations dropped to 1.73 million on Monday and 1.56 million the next day. This is the lowest since mid-March, except for Sundays and holidays, and well below the peak of over 4 million on some days in April.
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India’s vaccination numbers plunged to a near-two-month low of 1.56 million jabs on Tuesday, days after the new inoculation phase started on May 1.
The country had been consistently administering 3-3.5 million vaccine doses daily before May 1, when the immunisation drive was opened to those 18 and above and states and the private sector asked to procure vaccines directly from manufacturers.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/508309.html (Natural News) Fifteen million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Wuhan coronavirus vaccine were ruined as a result of the wrong ingredient being added during production. The incident occurred in a factory in west Baltimore which federal authorities flagged for multiple violations. Because of the mishap, delays have been anticipated in the federal government’s vaccine rollout.
A government official said the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) discovered that Emergent BioSolutions ruined the 15 million doses by adding the wrong ingredient. The company’s Bayview facility in Baltimore is also producing AstraZeneca vaccines. Unfortunately, workers at Emergent accidentally included an ingredient meant for the AstraZeneca jabs in a batch of J&J vaccines.
Our muddled response to the covid resurgence
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We Indians, like Americans, or citizens of any nation with dreams of greatness, tend to think of ourselves as exceptional. Boasts of our unique resistance to Sars-CoV-2 were exposed as hollow fairly early in the pandemic, but as images emerge of throngs at Gangetic ghats and multitudes at election rallies, the question of what marks us out has been turned on its head. Is there something particular about our vulnerability? What explains such casual behaviour amid a rising wave of infections? In the 24 hours until Thursday morning, our country reported more than 2,00,000 new cases and over 1,000 covid deaths. While the chart’s ascent is sharper than last year’s, the groundswell that is visible in some of our most populous regions is not of caution, but of indifference. This, even as healthcare facilities get overwhelmed in our worst-hit urban centres, forcing some states to impose lockdowns that are