-TheWire.in Professor Andrew Pollard tells Karan Thapar why India's 12-16 week Covishield gap makes sense, but refutes claim a single dose AstraZeneca vaccine is likely soon. The Chief Investigator of AstraZeneca and the Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group has, in this interview, addressed the present controvery over how long the gap between two doses of Covishield should be, clearly endorsing the Centre’s present policy of a 12-16 week gap. Professor Sir Andrew...
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Why The Pandemic Is A Child Rights Emergency In India -Namita Bhandare
-Article-14.com While Covid-19 orphans have dominated mainstream discourse, India’s children silently face an epidemic of other vulnerabilities, including hunger, the loss of school, early marriage and trafficking for sex. How child rights are being rolled back by decades. New Delhi: The first hint that something was out of place was when Saraswati Pagade, a team member of YUVA (Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action) Navi Mumbai Childline noticed a surge in the...
More »Why vaccine hesitancy should not be tackled through a carrot and stick policy -Sarojini Nadimpally
-Scroll.in What is needed is better public health communication. Along with an acute shortage of Covid-19 vaccines, with only 3.3% of its population fully vaccinated, India is also witnessing vaccine hesitancy. Anecdotal evidence suggests people, particularly in the rural and tribal areas, are not coming forward to take the vaccines. While it is imperative to address vaccine hesitancy, superficial attempts that fail to understand its structural causes could lead to more damage. As...
More »Kerala model: When the frontline is backbone -Vandana Puthezhath
-CivilSocietyOnline.com Thiruvananthapuram: VEHICLES scattered left and right as Ushakumari S., surreally perched on her scooter in a personal protective equipment (PPE) suit, drove at top speed through Kollam’s streets to get to a hospital. Riding pillion with her was a COVID-19 patient, Ramla Beevi, who needed her second antigen test done. Ushakumari had got fed up, waiting for an ambulance to ship the patient, and decided to take matters into her own...
More »To prepare for the third wave of Covid-19, here is what India needs to do -Abhishek Jha and Vineet Sachdev
-Hindustan Times The second wave of Covid-19 infections in India peaked on May 9, 2021. The seven-day moving average of daily cases has come down to 85,807 from the peak of 391,819 on May 9. The fact that India faced a severe second wave of infections, which overwhelmed the health infrastructure, has underlined the importance of preparing well for the third wave. Of course, the pace of vaccinations will matter the most...
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