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Updated: March 17, 2021 15:05 IST A group of experts have written a letter to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Drugs Controller General of India V.G. Somani. Share Article AAA A group of experts have written a letter to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Drugs Controller General of India V.G. Somani. A group of experts in public health, ethics, medicine, law, and journalism have written to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Drugs Controller General of India V.G. Somani, appealing for “time-bound and transparent investigation” following deaths and serious adverse effects after COVID-19 vaccination. “We understand that at least 65 deaths have occurred following vaccination for COVID-19 since the vaccination campaign started on January 16. However, the National AEFI (adverse event following immunisation) Committee’s investigation findings of only two of these deaths have been made public. We believe that due to the possible linkages of vaccination ....
Covid-19 vaccines: Investigate adverse events and make reports public, say public health professionals March 17, 2021 EMA report on AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine and blood clot reports expected tomorrow Even as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) reviews the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine after more than 10 countries temporarily suspended its use, a group of public health professionals have called for an investigation of deaths and serious adverse events in India as well. “AEFIs (adverse events following immunisation) are to be investigated through well-defined procedures for vaccine pharmacovigilance, and the reports made available in the public domain, for trust-building and transparency,” the public health representatives said in a letter to Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and others involved with the vaccines programme. ....
January 29, 2021 India’s Covid-19 story is panning out in two directions currently. The number of active and daily new cases are trending downwards, and the vaccines administered are charting upwards. Thirteen days into the vaccination programme, the country has inoculated 2.9 million frontline and healthcare workers against the novel coronavirus. India has seen over 10 million Covid-19 cases and over 150,000 people have lost the infection. The government has identified 30 million essential workers to vaccinate in the first phase, but the drive has been slow to pick up because of vaccine hesitancy and technical glitches. It also plans to vaccinate a total of 300 million Indians by August, focusing on vulnerable groups of people aged over 50, and those with comorbidities. ....
Study says there were warning signs on Twitter before the first Covid case was declared Even before the WHO announced the first case of Covid-19, many users on Twitter flagged cases of an unknown pneumonia in the winter of 2019, a study has found, according to a report in ThePrint. Late 2019 and early 2020, the study found that concern (where) was growing about cases of pneumonia across many European countries. The study, which analysed data from Twitter, found that the concerns were displayed in regions which later turned out to be major Covid-19 hotspots. The study was published in the journal Nature. The analysis was carried out by researchers at IMT School for Advanced Studies at Lucca, Italy. The study says governments, policymakers and local authorities can leverage social media to glean relevant region-specific information in real-time. This information can be used to formulate interventions, ThePrint report said. Read more here ....