#92 lakh vaccines needed every day in India

[tezlivenews]

ऐसे तो न हो पाएगा सबका टीकाकरण, धीमी है रफ्तार, हर दिन जरूरी 92 लाख टीके

ऐसे तो न हो पाएगा सबका टीकाकरण, धीमी है रफ्तार, हर दिन जरूरी 92 लाख टीके

भारत को अगर इस साल के अंत तक अपनी 18 साल और उससे ऊपर की 100 फीसदी आबादी को कोरोना रोधी टीका देना है तो इस लक्ष्य को पूरा करने के लिए हर दिन देश में 92 लाख खुराकें देनी होंगी। इसी साल 21 जून को भारत… Source link

[sapphic-in]

Headlines like this piss me off tbh. Y'all are sitting on 35-40 million doses of AstraZeneca, the best vaccine for India right now, while we're going through a MASSIVE bigger-than-first second wave with 3.5 lakh new cases every day.

According to Brown University School of Public Health Ashish Jha, the US is “sitting on 35-40 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine Americans will never use”.

On March 22, just as AstraZeneca concluded its US trial, Jha tweeted: “What? Don’t I care about vaccinating Americans? By time AZ is authorized by FDA, we’ll have LOTS of vaccines. The time to use AZ here would have been in January. By May, we won’t need it. Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor Adam Gaffney tweeted: “We should be diverting vaccine stock to India now.”

In early April, US chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said the US will likely not need the AstraZeneca shot. The AstraZeneca vaccine has not been granted Emergency Use Authorization by the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA). With documented cases of blood clots in younger women in Europe correlated with the vaccine, FDA authorisation may be further delayed. By the time it would have gained clearance, most American adults will have already received a vaccine, experts note. There are at least three other shots readily available in the US

The US Chamber of Commerce issued a statement on Friday, with its executive vice president stating: “These vaccine doses will not be needed in the United States, where it’s estimated that vaccine manufacturers will be able produce enough doses by early June to vaccinate every American. This move would affirm US leadership, including in initiatives such as COVAX, and as we work with partners around the globe because no one is safe from the pandemic until we are all safe from it.”

According to Bloomberg’s Vaccine Tracker, highest income countries are vaccinating at a pace 25 times faster than the lowest ones. The US has 22.9% of the world’s vaccines but only 4.3% of the world’s population. China has 21.9% and 18.2% respectively, and India 13.8% and 17.7%, according to the tracker. Almost half of all vaccines have gone to 16% of the world’s population. The Washington Post reported that the world’s poorest 92 countries may not be able to vaccinate even 60% of their population for another three years.

We don't need you to act like some saviors of our poor third world country. We just need you to stop oppressing us, keeping life saving resources from us.

Please, contact your local senator through this link (in my highlight, @sapphic.in ) and ask them to pressurize the Biden administration to give us the hoard you're never going to use.

Edited excerpts used from Indian Express Explained, by Karishma Mehrahotra (26 Apr 2021)