A group of physicians and public health experts have written an open letter to President Joe Biden, urging the United States to donate Covid-19 vaccines to India and to start by sending 30 million Moderna vaccines to Tamil Nadu.
Category: Health And Wellness
COVID-19: US Surgeon General urges parents to get their kids vaccinated
ANI- US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy has made an appeal to the people of the United States to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19, a move that is aimed at addressing vaccine hesitancy among some parents in the country. An advisory panel of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday had recommended […]
Dr. Fauci on India’s extension in the vaccine gap, says “very reasonable approach”
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- The only way for India to stabilize and get the country out of this menacing situation is to get as many people vaccinated as soon as possible. And for this, the country has to boost its vaccination drive. On Thursday, May 13, the Indian government announced the extension in the gap between […]
COVID: WHO Chief Scientist Swaminathan says India’s situation is ‘worrying’
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) has termed the rate of infections and deaths of India’s second wave as “worrying”, on Monday, May 10. And she had raised on call on the government to report actual numbers to take appropriate measures to save the country. In an […]
Indian American NGOs partners with FEMA to aid India
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in a statement on Friday, said the Philadelphia center is the second federally supported community vaccination center in the nation to benefit from Hindu Swayamsevak’s (HSS) service. Sewa International and 25 other organizations of the Indian-American community in the greater Philadelphia region are working closely with […]
Why more Indians are dying of Covid: A Stanford prof explains
The lockdown protected India’s rich for a time while exposing the poor to the virus, believes Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research.
Covid jabs for kids: Pfizer to seek approval in September
IANS- Pharmaceutical major Pfizer will likely seek the US Food and Drug Administration’s emergency authorization to administer its coronavirus vaccine among children between the ages of 2 and 11 in September, the media reported. By early next week, the company is expected to get FDA approval for the emergency use of its vaccine in children […]
AAPI leverages its strength to support India
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- In the last few weeks, the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), has been upping its efforts in supporting India with the various essential requirements to fight the devastating attack of the second wave of the Covid-19. Being the largest ethnic organization of its kind in the US, AAPI was […]
Indian-made Covaxin neutralizes 617 variants of coronavirus, says Dr. Fauci
India’s home-grown COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, has been found to pacify 617 variants for coronavirus.
American pharma ties up with Indian manufacturers to develop oral med for COVID-19
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- United States-based pharmaceutical company, MSD Pharmaceuticals, as a subsidy of Merck & Co., has entered into non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreements with five top Indian generic manufacturers for supply of molnupiravir, an investigational oral antiviral agent currently being studied in a Phase-3 trial for the treatment of non-hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19, in […]