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ecology - phytoplankton - functional traits

28/04/2021

3/5/2021

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India will now authorise vaccines approved by the US, UK, EU, Japan or WHO.

So in April 2021, Indian citizens will finally be allowed to get the Pfizer & moderna vaccines, which has been *illegal* till now. Pfizer actually withdrew its application for authorisation months ago after being asked to jump through hoops by the Indian government for no good reason.

The last year should make us much more sceptical of these regulatory bodies. India's is a stupidly extreme case, but every country's regulator has required a complex submission and evaluation procedure for these vaccines despite the burning pandemic and very strong evidence from other places. There's no good reason for the EU and US health regulators (for example) to not trust each other's judgement of the data. And there's even less reason for Indian regulators to think that their scrutiny is more rigorous and trustworthy.
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    Why I did this

    I am not an expert on Covid, viruses, or vaccines, but I am a scientist with relevant training. I believe we have a responsibility to clearly communicate science to the public, especially in emergencies. So I started to write summaries of Covid developments on facebook in March 2020 to help friends and family understand the situation as it unfolded. This is an archive of those posts (created much later).

    I also tracked the spread of alarming Covid variants for a few months at http://covidvarianttracking.com/ and mapped the consequences of faster variant spreading at https://tabsoft.co/2YwHCmZ.
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