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India-made nasal vaccines a game changer for children: WHO top scientist Amid concerns that third wave may affect children, and children's vaccines to be widely available may take time, Swaminathan said schools should reopen after teachers are vaccinated and transmission is down COMMENTS WHO's chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan said many vaccine developers have already started their paediatric trials. The Pfizer vaccine for children above 12 years has been approved. Photo: iStock Soumya Swaminathan, WHO chief scientist, has said on Sunday that India-made nasal vaccines could turn out to be t...
endIndex: (CNN) -- Millions of Indians are living under a mix of locally-imposed coronavirus restrictions, as the central government resists calls from leading medical experts for a nationwide lockdown. The Indian Medical Association earlier this month said a "complete, well-planned, pre-announced national lockdown" for 10 to 15 days would give the country's overstretched health system time to "recoup and replenish both the material and manpower" it needs. And top US coronavirus advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci on May 9 said of India: "You've got to shut down ... you need to break the chain of tra...
Covid-19 crisis in India: What you need to know about the cases, variants, vaccines in the second wave CNN 1 day ago By Jessie Yeung, CNN © Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images A man performs the last rites of a relative who died of Covid-19, as other funeral pyres are seen burning during a mass cremation in New Delhi, India, on April 24. In February, it seemed like India had gotten Covid-19 under control, with daily cases falling nearly 90% from the peak of the first wave last year. Now, the country is experiencing the world's worst outbreak, with new cases surging past 400,0...
The inclusion of children in the US is not the neglect of adults in India Monday The FDA approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine Children aged 12-15, and the CDC’s Vaccine Practice Advisory Committee will vote Wednesday on its use in that age range. That is, at a time when the pandemic is piling up outside our borders, and there is already a debate about the ethics of vaccinating children in the United States, when so many adults in Asia, Latin America and Africa continue to be unaccounted for. It is a false equivalence and an unproductive conversation that is unlikely to help an adul...