ICMR

The fear-mongering against COVID-19 vaccines, and the general anti-vaxxer rants against vaccines are all stemmed from the larger propensity among uninformed, unscientific and superstitious masses against modern medicine. Unfortunately, in India, a large part of the anti-vaccine propaganda has been done by politicians and fraudulent 'researchers' misusing academic facilities.

ICMR, in its statement on BHU's study about Covaxin side effects pointed out that there were several methodological flaws in the study.

Covid-19 vaccination, it added, by and large, has been documented to prevent all-cause mortality across age groups and settings.  The primary purpose of vaccination is to prevent Covid-19-associated severity. Studies have documented adverse events, predominantly thromboembolic events, following Covid-19 vaccination, it noted. 

"The ICMR has conducted a detailed study and found out that people who have suffered from severe COVID-19 infection should not do hard work for some time. It should be postponed for a year or two," Mansukh Mandaviya said.

"A persistent cough, sometimes accompanied by fever, running through India for the past two-three months is due to Influenza A subtype H3N2. The H3N2, which has been in wide circulation for the past two-three months, causes more hospitalisations than other subtypes," ICMR experts said.

Amid the Omicron scare, a new version of COVID-19 wreaking devastation on the world, India has come up with the first Omicron detection kit.

The Print didn't consider that sero survey included vaccinated people and healthcare workers, which resulted in skewed result

Health ministry refutes claims by The Economist that India's Covid-19 fatality numbers are several times more than official numbers

Coviself is a do-it-yourself kit for Covid-19 testing, manufactured by Pune-based Mylab Discovery Solutions Ltd.

The rampant use of plasma therapy had also resulted in black marketing of the same with donors charging thousands for plasma thus commercializing the entire process.