Covid-19 Vaccines - Updates And Questions

Adar Poonawalla is the name of the CEO of Pune based Serum Institute of India. Cute !!

The SII can (& plans to) make 100 million doses of the Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine each month in 2021. Source

Serum Institute of India plans to make up to 10 crore doses of coronavirus vaccine each month, starting next year, said chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla. Pune-based drugmaker partnered with global pharma giant AstraZeneca to produce COVID-19 vaccine by University of Oxford for low-and-middle income countries. Dubbed as Covishield, the COVID-19 vaccine is currently in the Phase III clinical trial in India.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Poonawalla revealed that the pharma major is increasing its production capacity by the end of 2021 to over 250 crore doses a year to cope with future disease outbreaks. Poonawalla's company now has an annual capacity of 150 crore doses.
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Faster Spreading Virus is Less Lethal..... says Doctor Syed. The new N501Y variant of the corona virus is faster spreading.

 

Any health care workers and essential workers got pfizer vaccine in usa? Updates and side effects?

Please post your feedback.

 

Many of my coworkers have received the first dose and will get the second next week. No side effects.

 

Thanks Malstrom for the feedback.

 

@MalStrom do you know they got pfizer or moderna?

 

The ones who got it first received Pfizer. The next wave got Moderna.

 

INDIA APPROVES THE OXFORD-ASTRA-ZENECA VACCINE !!

This is great news. Apparently the vaccine (Pune Serum Inst.of India production lots) will be available during the week of Jan 4th 2021. It is likely to have the same priority supply like other countries. Essential services people, followed by politico's, followed by old people, and then everyone else.

Oxford vaccine is about $2 a shot (priced for western countries), whereas it is ten times as much for the m-RNA based Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

 

Did you get the vaccine @MalStrom ?
Hope it's available for everyone soon.

 

Not yet. They are doing lottery at my workplace for non-clinical staff so I might have to wait a bit longer.