Vaccinating only Brahmastra to contain COVID-19
Dr Rajnesh Kumar
Second wave of Covid -19 Pandemic has caused tremendous amount of sufferings and loss of lives. Not only lives have been lost but there has been an immense physical, emotional and psychological breakdown and financial hardships among the families and communities who have suffered losses. Health care workers are having burnouts and breakdowns. We are struggling to get to the means to get out of this situation.
Public health tools like Covid-19 guidelines, lockdowns and Covid appropriate behaviours including Physical distancing, masking, hand washing and use of sanitizer though have the potential to breakdown the chain of transmission but in Indian context they don’t look like sustainable solutions in this long war against Covid-19. Lockdowns Impact Livelihoods while other measures like masking, physical distancing etc. have elements associated with them like drop in cases leading to complacency making people to aban
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Washington, May 1
More than 100 US lawmakers have written to President Joe Biden urging him to support India s proposal to the WTO to temporarily lift certain intellectual property barriers and allow countries to locally manufacture COVID-19 diagnostics and vaccines.
The Biden administration has not made a decision on the issue yet. The proposal by India and South Africa will be a focus at the World Trade Organisation s (WTO) meeting on May 5.
“We write to convey the urgent need for the United States to support the temporary waiver of some Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) rules proposed by India and South Africa at the WTO, during the COVID-19 emergency,” a group of influential American lawmakers wrote in a letter to Biden.
It’s an extreme example of the privileging of profits over lives, writes Jayati Ghosh. By Jayati GHOSH The unfolding pandemic horror in India has many causes. These…
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