FPJ Explains: How soon would a COVID-19 vaccine expire? 

the claims and concerns raised over expired doses being given to the younger lot? This led to the Health Ministry issue a clarification and stated that the rumors were “false and misleading”. It pointed out that the shelf life of Covaxin, the only vaccine being given to the people below 18 years of age, had been extended in November after proper regulatory scrutiny, and as such these vaccine doses were as good as any. The approval was based on the availability of additional “stability data” which was submitted by the firm to CDSCO.  

“The shelf life of a vaccine is a reflection of how long the vaccine retains its potency and stability at a given storage temperature and therefore its effectiveness. Expiry dates do not affect the safety of the vaccine, rather are related to the potency or amount of protection the vaccine gives,” the World Health Organization (WHO) stated.  

Ambani-Adani Economics: गरीब होते भारत में रईस होते अंबानी-अडानी...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn4Rwa1PHwU

The Modi regime is directly responsible for the current bloodshed. But the road here was paved by all who came before them, those who, since the 1980s, eagerly complied with the IMF’s structural adjustment programs and destroyed India’s life-making institutions and infrastructure. 

Reducing the fiscal deficit, the holy grail of neoliberalism, in reality opened up “a revenue deficit,” as the rich were relieved of taxation and the state, while increasing military expenditure, slashed public sector investment and social spending. I want to emphasize that not just the Congress or the BJP but every ruling coalition, at the state and federal level, followed this trajectory, including the Stalinists in power in my home state of West Bengal, whose most celebrated effort was to dispossess peasants from their land in order to build a car factory.

the government needs to invest money in vaccine production immediately and take steps to make vaccines free and universal. The differential pricing of these drugs, instituted by corporations like SII, needs to be scrapped and vaccines made free for all, and with distribution according to vulnerability, and not wallet size or ability to push to the front. 

the international Left, especially in the global North, has a vital role to play: we need to pressure our own ruling classes to stop hoarding vaccines. Vaccine imperialism may work for the rich countries in the short term, but it allows the virus to mutate in the parts of the globe without the vaccine and eventually return to strike the hoarders. Internationalism in this case is not just a political principle, it is a public health necessity.

http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/covid/594-union-must-persuade-all-capable-manufacturers-in-inda-to-prduce-covaxin 

http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/covid/589-tthe-health-system-has-not-crumbled-only-because-of-the-pandemic 

For other posts in this blog: http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/covid 

"Recovery in 5 days, 90% asymptomatic" | Iqbal Chahal, Mumbai's Top Officer on Omicron | Barkha Dutt
Jan 4, 2022 MOJO STORY  While the number of Covid cases continues to surge in Mumbai, the BMC has reported that only 15% of its hospital beds are in use. Ninety percent of the cases continue to be asymptomatic, however.

The civic body also released a new set of rules, as per which, all buildings which have had over 20% of their occupants infected, will be sealed. The body will also place patients under a 10-day isolation period.

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Omicron, orientation and questions Dec 31, 2021 Dr. John Campbell  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTftlM0MJUk 
I'm hoping the pandemic will be essentially over in a few weeks and move into an endemic phase. The question is of course, how will the next month pan out?

Most omicron hospitalisations incidental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM2VgBm9pTI  Dec 30, 2021

Around 80% of English hospital admissions with coronavirus are admitted for other reasons We are not seeing a dramatic increase in Omicron hospitalisations. 

Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine, Oxford University: This is not the same disease we were seeing a year ago.

Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers What our guys are saying is that incidental cases are making around 25 to 30 per cent of cases that are arriving,
but that will vary from place to place

It's not going up in an exponential way. As the number of cases in the community rises, there are significant levels of incidental cases

Dr Raghib Ali, consultant in acute medicine at Oxford University Hospitals, There is certainly a smaller proportion of people ending up with Covid pneumonia in intensive care
Probably half the cases I’ve seen are incidentals. You’ve got completely incidental cases, someone coming in with a broken leg, who also tests positive for Covid,

then a third category of older people who have comorbidities, Maybe they’ve had a fall or chest pain and also test positive and it's unclear if the virus is having some sort of impact.

And when the prevalence of a virus with relatively mild symptoms is high in the community then you will see higher incidentals

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@afshineemrani
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Dec 22
What I'm seeing with #Omicron.
1) Everyone will be exposed in next few weeks.
2) Almost everyone gets a mild form of common cold. Trivial hospitalization. Trivial oxygenation needed.
3) Omicron replaces Delta.
4) Omicron acts as a natural vaccine, Herd immunity.
4) End pandemic.

Omicron is literally the vaccine vaccine companies could not make.
It is attenuated.
No hospitalizations.
No critical patients.
No oxygenation.

BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra 27.5.21 addresses the Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyH3p_5wNHs The  assumptionabout the Centre for not letting the domestic manufacturing rise. are wrong.   ' Bharat Biotec has shared its license with three other plants, which will further enhance the production of the Covaxin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL2sqeCuljY  

on May 7th , Bharat Biotech has the sole licence to manufacture Covaxin, which it developed in collaboration with scientists from ICMR’s Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV). The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is willing to share the know-how to produce the indigenously-developed Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, with any company as the contract with co-developer Bharat Biotech is not close-ended.

About the bridging trial in India for the vaccine and medications that used to happen in India, but now there is no need for those trials. https://www.abplive.com/news/india/bjp-sambit-patra-says-arvind-kejriwal-government-vaccinated-only-13-pc-people-on-its-own-1919307 "राज्यों को 20 करोड़ एक लाख 61 हजार 350 डोज बिल्कुल फ्री दी" 

Left, Right & Centre | Has Community Transmission Of Omicron Begun? Fresh Worry Amid Covid Surge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4azyeOWd2lU Dec 30, 2021

The critical R or rate of reproduction factor, which defines the spread of Covid, is above 1 in India now. This means that each person with Covid is infecting at least one other person and this is a huge worry. Amid fears over a third wave, the big question is whether there is now open community transmission of the easy-to-get Omicron variant of Covid. We also talk to the CMD of Optimus Pharma about the next potential game-changer in the fight against Covid - pills such as Merck's Molnupiravir, which are being made as generics here. In this interview, we discuss the A to Z of the pills which will be available in a week.

2021 Could be Worse for the Economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN0jw-tqnsU  Last year, a global recession pushed down prices of raw materials and helped India's corporates make record profits even though their sales dropped. This year, a global recovery is pushing up raw material costs and that will put pressure on corporate profits. That means, even those who depend on the corporate sector may face a worse year in 2021.

Yale Sociologist Nick Christakis: COVID-19 Will Reshape Humanity | Amanpour and Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZhr8Hz03jY
Dec 21, 2021

With Omicron on the rise, what might next year have in store? Nicholas Christakis is director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University and author of the bestseller "Apollo’s Arrow." He speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the next phase of the pandemic.

Nicholas Christakis: How To End the Covid Pandemic Nick Gillespie | 11.10.2021 https://reason.com/podcast/2021/11/10/nicholas-christakis-how-to-end-the-covid-pandemic/ Misinformation and bad policy can only be defeated by robust, open debate in the public square.

All respiratory pandemics follow a script, one that's as much social and political as it is medical or epidemiological, says Yale sociologist and medical doctor Nicholas Christakis, who has just released a new paperback edition of his authoritative book, Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live. He remarked on the Covid-19 pandemic’s catastrophic impacts. This is a $16 trillion virus; “$8 trillion of damage to our economy…and $8 trillion of damage because of the death, disability, and illness the virus caused us,” said Christakis. “It’s like going to every family of four in this country and taking away $200,000 from them.” He argues that the economic ramifications are inevitable and apart from government restrictions; “economies need social interaction” and that ceases during pandemics. “It’s not we who are causing our economy to collapse. It’s the virus.” ..

He made predictions about the remaining timeline of this pandemic. Christakis explained that this “beginning phase” of the Covid-19 pandemic will last into 2022. By this time, “everyone in our country, probably everyone on the planet…will either be infected with the germ or be vaccinated…No one will escape.”

The next phase will be ushered in via herd immunity. The timing of this will be complicated by the unpredictability of variants. When we eventually enter this “intermediate phase”, we will find that we have been “devastated” and are left to “clean up the clinical, social, and psychological destruction” in the pandemic’s wake. Virus-related disability, gaps in children’s education, grief, job loss, higher taxes, and inflation are just some of the Covid-induced issues we will all need to deal with during this period.

“In addition to the moral and economic rationale, we have an epidemiological rationale,” he posited. “To the extent that other parts of the world are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, they are like petri dishes for the emergence for new, dangerous strains of the virus that will inevitably reach our shores.”

He concluded by arguing that “plagues offer new challenges and new opportunities.” Christakis finished on an optimistic note with a quotation from Albert Camus. “What we learn in time of pestilence: there are more things to admire in men than to despise.”

Afshine Emrani MD FACC (@afshineemrani) Tweeted:
@RWMaloneMD What I'm seeing with #Omicron.
1) Everyone will be exposed in next few weeks.
2) Almost everyone gets a mild form of common cold. Trivial hospitalization. Trivial oxygenation needed.
3) Omicron replaces Delta.
4) Omicron acts as a natural vaccine, Herd immunity.
4) End pandemic. https://twitter.com/afshineemrani/status/1473398842334744576?s=20

Comment: About omicron: I wanted to know if there is science on when and the conditions under which a virus becomes endemic before another strain hits to make it a vaccine like virus!!
I mean if we need for it to spread.. then all young healthy people should party till the new year

The .. government..... thinks that the market will magically produce the number of vaccines the country needs. This would explain why it has starved seven public sector vaccine manufacturing units—according to an April 17 article in Down to Earth—of any support instead of ramping up much-needed vaccine production.

The rights to produce the public sector vaccine, Covaxin, which has been developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Institute of Virology (NIV), in collaboration with Bharat Biotech, have been given to the private company partner on an exclusive basis. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/17/how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india-2/

(The vaccine candidate is produced with Bharat Biotech's in-house vero cell manufacturing platform^[26] that has the capacity to deliver about 300 million doses.^[27] The company is in the process of setting up a second plant at its Genome Valley facility in Hyderabad to make Covaxin. The firm in collaboration with Government of Odisha is establishing another facility at Odisha Biotech Park in Bhubaneswar to commence Covaxin production by June 2022^[28][29]. Besides this, they are also exploring global tie-ups for Covaxin manufacturing.^[30]

In December 2020, Ocugen, Inc. entered into a partnership with Bharat Biotech to co-develop Covaxin for the U.S. market.^[31][32] In January 2021, Precisa Med entered into an agreement with Bharat Biotech to supply Covaxin to Brazil.^[33]

In May 2021, Haffkine Institute entered into a memorandum of understanding with Bharat Biotech and announced that the production of Covaxin by them will commence after obtaining support from the Maharashtra state government and approval from the Indian government^[34] whereas Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL) has signed a commercial agreement with Bharat Biotech for producing the drug substance, a critical component of the vaccine^[35] Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation (BIBCOL) will also manufacture the vaccine.^{[36]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covaxin )}

 Congress Party Briefing by Shri Randeep Singh Surjewala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3jO2zd7658    

on the data the shortfall of vaccinations even as the earlier deadline as committed in the Supreme Court,  has passed. Also data on the shortfall of vaccine availability, and the slow pace of extending vaccines to those below 18.  

In english: https://youtu.be/v3jO2zd7658?t=1674