Pfizer Coming in India for Kids Too but also adults said AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria in an interview.
Dr Guleria Said :
“It’ll help for not only children but adults also”.
“This has been done in the past too when the government gave emergency approvals to all vaccines that had been approved by agencies of US, UK or EU and WHO.
Based on that, emergency approvals have already been given de-facto to vaccines with approvals from these agencies and the issue of indemnity also seems to be resolved.
So, I think we will have Pfizer vaccine coming in for children and adults shortly,”
“There are two things here. First, to look at emerging data.
There wasn’t enough data to be comfortable with.
I am not the part of the group that decides this, but there wasn’t enough data for the vaccine to be given comfortably to Indians.
There have been side-affects with European population so you have to be really careful.
The first principle is you don’t want to cause more harm than good.
As the vaccine rollout happened it became clear that a large number of vaccinated in UK and the US were of Indian origin and in them there were no side-effects and therefore we felt now we have enough data globally to say that we can approve the vaccines.
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