Vaccine Efficacy – my take three months ago
“Today the News Papers have reported as "Amid concerns over Omicron, India’s Covid Task Force chief V K Paul on Tuesday said there is a potential scenario that “our vaccines may become ineffective in emerging situations” and emphasised the need to be ready to modify the vaccines as per requirement.
We had express our serious apprehensions on vaccine & its efficacy in the article.
Our Central Govt was so overconfident that the Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan went overboard to publicly announce that:-
We are in India, has emerged as the world's pharmacy, and it supplied 5.51 crore Covid-19 vaccines to 62 different countries, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said.
"We are in the end game of the COVID-19 pandemic in India" and to succeed at this stage, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said, politics should be kept out the Covid-19 vaccination drive.
"Unlike most other countries, we have a steady supply of COVID-19 vaccines that are safe with proven immunogenicity and efficacy. Based on the initial results, these Made in India vaccines have shown some of the lowest adverse events following immunization (AEFI) anywhere in the world," he said. (Source- PTI Hindustan Times, 7th March 2021 – 8.30 PM)
That is when as a nation we have committed terrible mistake of being overconfident propagating an image of “Make in India” Vaccine which was actually “Made by India” and India had no control over the same as it is apparent now the shortage of vaccine is staring at our faces and we have no clue by when we would be able to inoculate our population. We also do not know by the time we plan inoculation whether, the vaccine would be effective or not is a million-dollar question.
Please read the attached ful article on the subject.