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India has leveraged its manufacturing capacity to pre-order 600 million doses of potential <keyword id="8904563" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="covid-19-vaccine">Covid-19 vaccine</keyword> and negotiating for another billion doses, says a new global anaylysis of advance market commitments (AMC) for vaccine candidates against the coronavirus. The total number of these vaccine doses, if they are approved to be utilised in the course of time, should be enough to vaccine half of the country's over 1.3 billion population given the fact that most of the vaccine candidates against the coronavirus require two doses. The analysis of advance market commitments for experimental Covid-19 vaccine till October 8 by US-based Duke Global Health Innovation Center noted that international initiatives such as COVAX and other alliances are critical to ensuring equitable allocation of vaccines for low and middle-income countries. Current models predict that there will not be enough vaccines to cover the world's population until 2024, said the report by the Center's Launch and Scale Speedometer, an initiative that identifies hurdles to delivering health innovations to low-income countries. However, the analysis showed that the number of confirmed potential Covid-19 vaccine doses that India has ordered is second only to the US which already has made deals for 810 million doses and negotiating for another 1.6 billion doses. "Several middle-income countries, including India, also have robust vaccine development programs and are putting forward vaccine candidates, though these are not as far along in the process as the leading candidates from high-income countries" said the report. "If any of the candidates from middle-income countries achieve regulatory approval, the landscape will likely shift significantly," it added. For countries without manufacturing or vaccine development capacity, those with the infrastructure to host clinical trials, such as Peru, have used that as leverage to negotiate purchase deals, the report added. Overall, the analysis showed that even before any vaccine candidates are approved for market, confirmed purchases cover 3.8 billion doses, with another five billion doses currently under negotiation or reserved as optional expansions of existing deals. The report comes at a time when nearly 200 Covid-19 vaccine candidates are moving forward through the development and clinical trials processes at unprecedented speed, more than ten candidates are already in Phase 3 large-scale trials and several have received emergency or limited authorisation. For the study, the researchers aggregated and analysed publicly available data on vaccine procurement and manufacturing to track the flow of procurement and better understand global equity challenges. India is planning to start the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine first to the healthcare workers followed by other groups to be added "sequentially". The distribution drive would take place over a year. For this, the states and union territories would form a three-tier system as per the Centre's directions. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/icici-bank-surges-6-after-it-posts-six-fold-jump-in-net-profit-at-over-42-billion/articleshow/78992379.cms">ICICI Bank surges 6% after it posts six-fold jump in net profit at over ₹4,200 crore</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/covid-19-vaccine-updates-pfizer-moderna-to-roll-out-covid-19-vaccine-by-december/articleshow/78924143.cms">COVID-19 vaccine updates: Covaxin, India’s first indigenous COVID vaccine, is likely to be launched by mid-2021, Israel starts human trials</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/news/xi-and-modi-to-come-face-to-face-thrice-this-month-even-as-china-embarks-on-its-rail-and-road-border-project/articleshow/78995991.cms">Xi and Modi to come face-to-face thrice this month even as China embarks on its rail-and-road border project</a>

India is looking to secure 600 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by leveraging its manufacturing capacity

<keyword id="15862275" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bharat-Biotechs-intranasal-Covid-vaccine" source="Orion">Bharat Biotech's intranasal Covid vaccine</keyword> has been approved by the Union Health Ministry for inclusion in the vaccination programme as a booster dose for those above 18 years of age, official sources said on Thursday. The needle-free vaccine will be available at private centres. It will be introduced on the Co-WIN platform on Friday evening, they said. The <keyword id="383216" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="nasal-vaccine" source="Orion">nasal vaccine</keyword> -- BBV154 -- received approval of the Drugs Controller General of India in November for restricted use in an emergency situation for those above 18 as a heterologous booster dose. The approval for the vaccine comes amid a spurt in <keyword id="8764262" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="covid" source="Orion">Covid</keyword> cases in China and some other countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Thursday cautioned people against complacency and urged them to wear masks in crowded places, while also directing officials to strengthen surveillance measures, especially at international airports. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/police-officers-were-seen-guarding-a-crematorium-in-beijing-amid-reports-of-overflowing-funeral-homes-due-to-a-resurgence-in-covid-infections-bloomberg/articleshow/96369408.cms">Police officers were seen guarding a crematorium in Beijing amid reports of overflowing funeral homes due to a resurgence in COVID infections: Bloomberg</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/pm-modi-to-review-covid-19-situation-at-high-level-meeting-today/articleshow/96417240.cms">PM Modi to review Covid-19 situation at high-level meeting today</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/3-cases-of-omicron-subvariant-bf-7-driving-chinas-covid-surge-detected-in-india/articleshow/96397261.cms">3 cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7, driving China's Covid surge, detected in India</a>

Bharat Biotech's intranasal Covid vaccine approved by govt, to be available on CO-WIN

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A GOP official peddled unverified claims that COVID jabs were turning people into "potted plants."</li><li>Jim O'Connor is an elected Republican official in charge of power and water companies in <keyword id="57493" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Arizona">Arizona</keyword>.</li><li>He was attempting to convince company leaders to not impose COVID jab requirements on their workers.</li></ul>An elected GOP official in Arizona is peddling a false claim that the <keyword id="8983421" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Covid-vaccine">COVID vaccine</keyword> not only causes death but turns those who receive the jab into "potted plants." Jim O'Connor - a state corporation commissioner who was <a href="https://www.azcc.gov/jim-oconnor/biography">elected in November to oversee companies in charge of utilities like electricity and water</a> - claimed in an interview with local <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> outlet the <a href="https://roselawgroupreporter.com/2021/05/arizona-regulator-who-oversees-utility-companies-sent-them-conspiracy-theories-on-covid-19-vaccine/https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2021/05/08/arizona-corporation-commissioner-jim-oconnor-sent-covid-vaccine-conspiracy-theories/4931933001/">Arizona Republic</a> on Saturday that the government was hiding numbers of vaccine-related deaths and serious side effects."I'm also aware through other information that many people who have taken the shot, many thousands of people here in the US, are deceased. And the deceased part is the good news. And please don't take that out of context," O'Connor told Ryan Randazzo of the Arizona Republic."But the alternative to being deceased after the shot, there are something like 40,000 plus recorded cases of people that are now potted plants. They are human vegetables. They've lost their ability to function," he said.There is no clinical evidence to support O'Connor's claims, and it is unclear where O'Connor obtained the case numbers he cited of people going into a vegetative state after receiving the COVID vaccine. O'Connor's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider. O'Connor did not cite any database or official source to support his claims. But when the Arizona Republic pressed the official on where he was getting this information from, he referenced Ryan Cole - an Idaho-based physician who <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2021/04/scicheck-idaho-doctor-makes-baseless-claims-about-safety-of-covid-19-vaccines/">made false COVID claims</a> in March this year. The Republic wrote as well that several commission records indicated that O'Connor was attempting to discourage company leaders in the Arizona trade and utility industry from having their workers vaccinated. O'Connor told the Republic that he was concerned about potential job losses if utility companies in the state made it a requirement for their workers to be vaccinated."If people are willing to individually choose to get the shot, God bless them," he said, adding that he did not want people to lose their jobs if they chose not to be vaccinated. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/regulator-shares-discredited-conspiracy-theories-covid-77580219">ABC News</a> reported that O'Connor reached out in March to the leaders of several companies, in a bid to sway them from requiring that their employees take the COVID vaccine. These companies included the Arizona Public Service, the Salt River Project, Southwest Gas Corporation, and Tucson Electric Power. ABC spoke to Mike Hummel, CEO of the Salt River Project, who confirmed that O'Connor contacted him about the COVID jab. "We continue to see vaccines as a way out of this," Hummel told ABC News. "What we've done is try to make information available to employees." Misinformation about the side effects of COVID vaccines has been rife - particularly among vaccine skeptics and anti-vaccine groups. Insider reported last week that some groups were circulating <a href="https://archive.is/Qn20A#selection-1869.1-1864.6">"death lists"</a> and broadcasting screenshots of reports of <a href="https://archive.ph/bVAqS">disturbing side effects,</a> pulling statistics from an unvetted vaccine database to warn others about unverified "side effects" from taking the COVID shot.However, the vaccine database in question, known as the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), does not require a medical professional to verify symptoms before reports are logged - meaning that reports of deaths and adverse side effects are unverified, and may even be falsified. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-attacked-covid-19-vaccine-again-on-show-2021-5"></a>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html">reassured the public that the COVID jabs are safe and effective</a> - and that <a href="https://www.insider.com/dr-fauci-moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-had-few-side-effects-2020-12">adverse effects, including anaphylaxis and thrombosis, are rare.</a>According to the <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state">NPR's vaccine tracker</a>, more than 257 million COVID vaccine doses have been administered in the US. This brings the tally of Americans who have been fully vaccinated to over 112 million people, or 33.9% of the total population.

An Arizona GOP official made unverified claims that COVID vaccine turns people into 'potted plants'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A witness said his family walked into the pharmacy of the King Soopers grocery store to get the COVID vaccine just before the <keyword id="150" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Shooting">shooting</keyword>.</li><li>The man said the suspected shooter "shot the woman in front of [his family]."</li><li>The family hid in a coat closet for an hour, trying to stay quiet. </li></ul>Some customers at the Boulder, <keyword id="6359726" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="colorado">Colorado</keyword>, King Soopers supermarket were there to get their COVID vaccines when <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/boulder-police-department-tweets-about-active-shooter-at-grocery-store/articleshow/81641023.cms">an active shooting incident</a> happened, ending in the deaths of ten people, including a police officer. "I got a call that my daughter, grandchildren, and son-in-law walked into the pharmacy to get a COVID vaccine," a witness <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boulder-colorado-active-shooter-king-soopers-today/">told CBS News</a>. According to the supermarket's website, King Soopers rolled out its <a href="https://www.kingsoopers.com/rx/guest/get-vaccinated">vaccine program</a> across Colorado starting February, with dozens of supermarket-linked pharmacies offering doses of the Moderna COVID vaccine to eligible people. The store also offers anti-body testing.King Soopers is part of the Kroger grocery store company. There are nine stores in the Rocky Mountain region. The <a href="https://twitter.com/boulderpolice/status/1374100929855815692?s=20">Boulder Police Department</a> tweeted about an "active shooter" at the Table Mesa King Soopers grocery store at around 2:49 p.m. Police and the FBI then swarmed the scene.The witness told CBS that he was in contact with his daughter, who said that the suspected shooter had "shot the woman in front of them." The family ran and hid in a coat closet, staying quiet to avoid attracting the notice of the shooter. They were saved an hour later by cops who showed up to rescue them. "This is not okay with me," the man said, adding that he was putting in a big pitch for gun control. "When it's your family, you feel it."

Some of the people at the Colorado King Soopers were actually there to get the COVID vaccine

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="44612" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Pfizer">Pfizer</keyword> halted a shipment of 700,000 COVID vaccines scheduled to arrive in <keyword id="6355882" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="israel">Israel</keyword> on Sunday.</li><li>Pfizer stopped the shipment when Israel failed to pay for the last 2.5 million doses sent there.</li><li>Israeli media reported that Pfizer staff called Israel a "banana republic" amid fears of further payment delays.</li></ul>Pfizer halted a shipment of 700,000 COVID vaccines scheduled to arrive in Israel on Sunday following the country's failure to pay for the last 2.5 million doses shipped there.According to <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/banana-republic-pfizer-outraged-israel-failed-to-pay-for-covid-vaccines-664140">the Jerusalem Post</a>, a shipment of 700,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine was due to arrive in Israel last Sunday but was delayed indefinitely, pending payment. The Jerusalem Post wrote that local Israeli media outlet Army Radio was circulating reports that Pfizer staff were calling the country a "banana republic," commenting on its political instability. The media outlet also reported that senior officials at Pfizer were concerned that the Israeli government - currently led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - would not come through with payment.Netanyahu's government <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-04/pfizer-pfe-has-a-moral-dilemma-deciding-where-the-vaccines-will-go">rolled out a mass vaccination campaign</a> after it paid for its first 10 million vaccines, but the supply began to run short in February. According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-pfizer/pfizer-says-working-on-new-covid-19-vaccine-supply-deal-to-israel-idUSKBN2BS1EM">Reuters</a>, the Israeli government sought to buy around 36 million more Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses, which would cost the country around 3.5 billion shekels (around $1.05 billion). But these plans - as well as a motion to approve funds to pay for the 700,000 COVID vaccines - were halted when Netanyahu and defense minister Benny Gantz got into a political tiff over judicial appointments. Israel has recorded over 834,000 COVID cases and 6,243 deaths to date. Pfizer responded to the Post's queries on the vaccine delay, saying that the company had completed all its deliveries per an agreement inked last November that supplied an undisclosed number of COVID vaccines for some 2.6 billion shekels ($785 million)."The company is currently working with the Israeli government to update the agreement, to supply additional vaccines to the country. While this work continues, shipments may be adjusted," the company said in a statement to the Jerusalem Post. Around 5.27 million Israelis over 16 have received a first dose of the vaccine, while 4.84 million people have taken their second shot. This makes Israel one of the countries with the highest inoculation rates, as over half its population of 9.3 million people have taken at least one vaccine shot. Insider has reached out to Pfizer and the Israeli Ministry of Health for comment.

Pfizer halts shipment of 700,000 COVID vaccines to Israel after the country reportedly failed to make payment

Medical expert Dr Rajeev Jayadevan said that <keyword id="21480687" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Thrombosis-Thrombocytopenia-Syndrome" source="keywords">Thrombosis Thrombocytopenia Syndrome</keyword> (<keyword id="20218859" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="TTS" source="keywords">TTS</keyword>) refers to the <keyword id="21480686" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="clot-in-blood-vessels" source="keywords">clot in blood vessels</keyword>, and it occurs in very rare cases, following the use of certain types of <keyword id="19953288" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vaccines" source="keywords">vaccines</keyword>. Acknowledging that the <keyword id="20250806" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="COVID-vaccines" source="keywords">Covid vaccines</keyword> have helped in preventing numerous deaths, Jayadevan, who is the Co-Chairman of National Indian Medical Association (IMA) Covid Task Force in Kerala, stated that reports of such cases have also been highlighted in many reports. "TTS is thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, which is basically clot in blood vessels of the brain or elsewhere, along with a low platelet count. It is known to occur in very rare instances following certain types of vaccines and also from other causes. According to the WHO, adenovirus vector vaccines in particular have been rarely associated with this condition," he told ANI. "Although COVID vaccines have prevented numerous deaths, reports of these extremely rare but potentially serious immune mediated events have also been published in reputed journals," Dr Jayadevan added. This comes in the wake of a recent admission by <keyword id="19910149" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="AstraZeneca" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="AstraZeneca" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="AstraZeneca">AstraZeneca</keyword>, the pharmaceutical company, that its Covid vaccine Covishield and Vaxzevria "can, in very rare cases, cause TTS." According to several UK media reports, AstraZeneca has made the admission in court documents in connection with a case that alleges that the vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, caused death and serious injury in dozens of cases. The Serum Institute of India produced COVID-19 vaccine named Covishield but not using mRNA platform. It has been prepared using the viral vector platform. In the vaccine, a chimpanzee adenovirus - ChAdOx1 - has been modified to enable it to carry the COVID-19 spike protein into the cells of humans. This cold virus is basically incapable of infecting the receiver, but can very well teach the immune system to prepare a mechanism against such viruses. The same technology was used to prepare vaccines for viruses like Ebola. Amid reports about clot in blood vessels in the UK media, the Serum Institute of India did not respond to the query. Notably in 2023, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in its report that TTS emerged as a new adverse event following immunisation in individuals vaccinated with COVID-19 non-replicant adenovirus vector-based vaccines. This refers to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 ChAdOx-1 vaccine and the Johnson &amp; Johnson (J&amp;J) Janssen COVID-19 Ad26.COV2-S vaccines. "TTS is a serious and life-threatening adverse event. WHO has issued this interim emergency guidance to increase awareness about TTS in the context of COVID-19 vaccination and help healthcare providers in the assessment and management of potential TTS cases," the 2023 statement by WHO read. However, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in March 2024 at 'Dialogues - Navigating India's health sector' said that ICMR has done a detailed study which shows that COVID-19 vaccine is not responsible for heart attacks, and an individual's lifestyle and factors such as binge drinking could be among underlying causes. Mandaviya said, "If someone has a stroke today, they think it is because of the Covid vaccine. ICMR has done a detailed study that the (Covid) vaccine is not responsible for heart attacks." (ANI)

TTS: Clot in blood vessels occurs in rare cases with certain vaccines, says medical expert amid reports over AstraZeneca

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An <keyword id="11898822" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="army" source="Orion">Army</keyword> officer has decided to resign rather than take the <keyword id="11895018" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-vaccine" source="Orion">COVID vaccine</keyword> mandated by the military.</li><li>Lt. Col. Paul Douglas Hague said on Fox News that he has had all other vaccines, but he won't get the one for COVID.</li><li>The CDC and other medical experts have argued that the COVID vaccines are safe and effective.</li></ul>A US Army officer who has received all other vaccines mandated by the Department of Defense <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1440842105815855113">has decided to resign after 18 years of service rather than take the COVID shot</a>, though that is not his only complaint."I don't want the COVID vaccine, and I don't plan on getting it," <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/army-officer-says-he-took-all-the-other-vaccines-but-wont-get-covid-jab-because-freedom?ref=scroll">Lt. Col. Paul Douglas Hague told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday</a>. "I've had all the other Army vaccines. I've had eight anthrax shots. I've had the smallpox vaccination. I've had them all.""So it's really not about whether I'll get the shot," he continued."This is about the freedom of the American people," Hague explained. "The right to choose your own medical procedures. The right to decide what's gonna be injected into your body and what's not. That's a natural human right that we can't take away from people. And I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution which affords those rights to the Americans."US military members do not have the right to reject mandated vaccines and still serve. These requirements are based on the military's experience that diseases can be as big a threat to troops as the enemy. Still, there are certain religious exemptions, among others.Hague's decision, which comes just two years from retirement and will cost him his pension and other benefits, made waves last week when his wife posted his resignation letter on Twitter."I am incapable of subjecting myself to the unlawful, unethical, immoral, and tyrannical order to sit still and allow a serum to be injected into my flesh against my will and better judgement," Hague wrote in his letter, a partial response to the Pentagon's COVID vaccine mandate.Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sent a memo in late August requiring military personnel to get the vaccine after its full FDA approval, emphasizing it was necessary for a "healthy and ready force.""After careful consultation with medical experts and military leadership, and with the support of the President, I have determined that mandatory vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (<keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword>) is necessary to protect the Force and defend the American people," he said.In his resignation letter, Hague also lamented lockdowns in response to the virus, said he had a "complete lack of confidence" in the Biden administration after failures in Afghanistan, and criticized what he sees as a "Marxist takeover of the military."While the COVID vaccines developed by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson &amp; Johnson, along with other response measures like masks and lockdowns, have proven to be divisive issues in the US, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as outside medical experts, continue to push</a> for these in order to reduce the virus' spread and severity, which is claiming an average of more than 2,000 lives each day, largely among unvaccinated people.The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html">CDC has stressed</a> that "COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective," notes that millions of people have received the shot, and encourages everyone ages 12 and up to get the vaccine.

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