People’s understanding of health is very rudimentary. If you suggest that the vaccines have not been sufficiently trialed, most have no idea how long and in what manner disease manifests itself. Disease changes form & location and remerges when the immune system is compromised. The results can take a long time to emerge. This is the biggest experiment in history on human health that has ever been undertaken and touted as a victory for modern science but the reality will emerge one day as otherwise.
Just one day earlier, Brazil’s health ministry inked a deal with the private Indian firm worth 1.6 billion reais ($290,000), with the first 8 million vaccine doses set to arrive in March.
However, on Friday state prosecutors in the South American nation said that the two-dose vaccine should not be rolled out because it has not yet passed large-scale phase III clinical trials.
Brazil’s drug regulator, the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), said on Friday that it had been given the green light to conduct an inspection of a Bharat Biotech factory in India from March 1 to 5.“The acquisition of vaccines not yet tested further delays the vaccination of Brazilians and puts the lives of millions at risk, at the moment when we face the worst phase of the disease, with the record of daily deaths recently reached,” the court submission reads.
The inspection is set to cover the factory’s production lines, storage facilities and quality control laboratories, Anvisa said in a press release.
Brazil has recorded the second-highest Covid-19 death toll of the pandemic after the US. The regulator has not yet been asked, though, to conduct clinical studies or to authorize the emergency use of the Covaxin vaccine.
Last week the country cut some of the red tape around its procurement rules in order to circumvent traditional bidding procedures and get Covid-19 jabs into the arms of Brazilians.
More than 250,000 deaths from the virus have been recorded in Brazil. On Thursday it reported 65,998 new cases and another 1,541 deaths.