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Political milestones seem to be pushing the development of India's Covid-19 vaccines, rather than hard data on safety and efficacy. Remember ICMR's 'guidance' to have a vaccine by 15 August 2020 (thankfully withdrawn after the shocked response)? + https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/scientists-criticize-rushed-approval-indian-covid-19-vaccine-without-efficacy-data
Unsurprisingly, it is the poor and the weakest who will become unwitting test subjects for this unconscionable vaccine nationalism. As here in Bhopal, where the state's CM has made a virtue of his decision to skip the vaccine. + https://twitter.com/Anurag_Dwary/status/1346486897988702211?s=20
Reminded of @PratikChakrab on vaccination in colonial India: "it was often impossible to draw any lines between trials, efficacy and the vaccinations conducted for immunity, i.e., to know when exactly a vaccine became ‘efficacious’ enough to be known as a ‘vaccine’" +
"In several instances mass vaccinations were conducted for prophylactic purposes on people even when they were at their ‘trial’ stages." Plus ca change. + https://www.theindiaforum.in/letters/letters-august-7-issue
When a respected doctor like Jacob John is la-di-lah on vaccine development that is a mirror of the bad old days of testing Western juju on the natives, what can one say? (Great thread here, though, on the issues) / https://twitter.com/PriyankaPulla/status/1346336950681124864?s=20
The preeminent scientist @GKangInd warns us of this dangerous shortcutting : "Essentially you are handing people who are anti-vaccine, anti-science a weapon that they can use."
Pretty much familiar territory for those who know history. / https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/i-have-no-clue-i-have-never-seen-anything-like-it/articleshow/80087336.cms
Pretty much familiar territory for those who know history. / https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/i-have-no-clue-i-have-never-seen-anything-like-it/articleshow/80087336.cms
