Chinese Wuhan Virus Thread

Obviously lockdown has some effect in controlling it by isolating the infected ppl in their location. But how long can it be enforced?
Lockdown is a sledgehammer, it smashes everything. Businesses, jobs everything. You need a whip. To keep ignorant masses in control. That what china does best.

I believe instead of age group, we should have prioritized based on vaccinating one in each family who would be going out for livelihood or have contact with outside world some thing like that . ppl who can work or live remotely should have been the last category. That would have slowed the spread and also ensured livelihood is not affected.
All of these are rationing. We should have not let shortage happen in the first place. Money should have been pumped in mid 2020 to make massive number of doses possible.
 
There is no escape, we need to accept the reality that this is not going away. It will become a regular feature as mutations start happening and popping here and there. In fact this is a wake up call to introspect on health spending & infra. I bet next such pandemic wont be so kind to us.
It will come in control. Vaccines will bring it in control. This Pandemic has pushed many long pending vaccine technologies into front. There are already vaccines updates.
 
goodness gracious seems lakh has no value now , its all in crores just like our population. In fact grapevine has it that we will manufacture as much vaccines as we manufactured before, nothing more nothing less.

It is always reassuring when company's word byte says "under construction","all of them will be given to karnataka","all the directors"," discussions for procurement of vaccines from out of India "," negotiations are a complex undertaking","likely to be detrimental to these effort"," they can ramp it up to 10 crore ","technology transfer are complex process".

will we live to see that day ?
Rest assured, covid vaccine is a hot commodity right now. They will make it. Not making it is leaving money on table. No one does that.
 
This keeps on getting better and better....

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals​

The Neanderthal core haplotype occurs in south Asia at an allele frequency of 30%, in Europe at an allele frequency of 8%, among admixed Americans with an allele frequency of 4% and at lower allele frequencies in east Asia23 (Fig. 3). In terms of carrier frequencies, we find that 50% of people in South Asia carry at least one copy of the risk haplotype,

The highest carrier frequency occurs in Bangladesh, where more than half the population (63%) carries at least one copy of the Neanderthal risk haplotype and 13% is homozygous for the haplotype.

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Apparently, Pakistani Bangladeshi and North Indians are at the highest risk (even without other facts). East Asian, (Slanted Chinese) are at lowest risk.
 
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This keeps on getting better and better....

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals​





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Apparently, Pakistani Bangladeshi and North Indians are at the highest risk (even without other facts). East Asian, (Slanted Chinese) are at lowest risk.

Neanderthal is another word for uncivilized
 
I think the Biological E vaccine will release earlier than ZyCov D since it's already in phase III trials. Bio E vaccine
Its essentially India's answer to Novavax vaccine.

Think about : India has ALL kinds of platforms for covid vaccines :

1. Classic incompetent virus platform - ICMR/Bharat Biotech
2. DNA Plasmid platform - Zydus Cadilla
3. ( Licensed ) Vector Virus platform - SII, Reddy's Lab
4. Protein Sub unit - Bio E and Licensed Novavax
5. mRNA Platform - I don't remember which one but there is one :)

3 of these are about to complete all trials or have completed all trials. BB, ZC, SII.

I don't know any other country that has so much variety in so many platforms available. May be USA?

Its DRDO and Indian Army all over again. We have a lot of research but production is insufficient for our needs. Someone in government SHOULD have paid attention to production aspect of vaccine supply chain.
Is it because of Patel - Gujarat - Modi?
No. It is nothing to do with politics. Its a brand new technology. Besides, land below them have changed. When they started it was purely Chinese Version of the virus. Now there are so many variants. I am sure their vaccine is having more challenge than say Pfizer's or Moderna's.
 
All of that stuff has already been funded. Bharat has transferred vac tech to three other PSUs, and even their grants have been paid by the govt for expansion, probably about 3.5-5 crore per month between them.
On the ground it is a different story, govt is doing what it does best, nothing.

Government Officers "Living In Ivory Towers": Court Over Covid Situation​

The high court's observations came while hearing a plea of Delhi-based Panacea Biotec seeking to modify a July 2020 order​


"by the end of this year", that is six months far away.