Hi readers, many followers ask questions like:
Why people are afraid of vaccination?
Is it safe to be vaccinated with AstraZeneca? (90% followers ask this question)
If corona is controversial why to vaccinate?
Is being fully vaccinated means we will not be affected again?
Answering all these questions is not possible in one blog so there will be three blogs: At the end you will get answers to your questions and will be able to make your own decision. Agreed? So, let’s start.
It is known to many that developing a vaccine is a lengthy process as it takes years to mature hence, when news started pouring in that corona vaccine will be available by the end of 2020, everyone got surprised.
Isn’t it amazing that, “When no one was aware of anything with certainty about corona virus (even today, many things are obscure), its mode of action and symptoms, how it is possible to develop a vaccine and that too, in a short span of less than one year”? Nevertheless, the vaccine development kicked off.
This was the first sign of suspicion inculcated into the mind of people who started whispering that all was not as it is being told.
Who is in the business of vaccine production?
SinoVac Biotech and Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, China, jointly started vaccine development. The medical research unit of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in collaboration with CanSino to develop “SinoVac” using inactivated vaccine technology previously used successfully for producing vaccines against influenza and measles. PLA’ medical research unit approved the vaccine after allowing experimental shots to be used on their own staff.
Oxford-AstraZeneca used for vaccine development; a weakened version of a common cold virus (adenovirus) taken from “chimpanzees” that was modified to look like coronavirus expecting that it will not cause illness. It is speculated that this might be one of the reasons of blood clotting reportedly caused by AstraZeneca in people who were given shots of this vaccine. Medical people say, “some people are allergic to AstraZeneca.
This was the second sign of suspicion which made people literally afraid of having vaccine shots.
Covaxin is locally developed by Bharat Biotech, India, using “killed coronaviruses” World Health Organization (WHO), on March 6th, 2022, has approved it for human administration and since then it is being used for vaccinating Indian people. (https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-bharat-biotech-bbv152-covaxin-vaccine-against-covid-19-what-you-need-to-know).
Sputnik V is Russian vaccine exhibiting mode of action like of Oxford-AstraZeneca. The vaccine used cold-type virus, as carrier to deliver small fragment of the coronavirus to the body.
So far, there are 9 types of vaccines being administered around the world. Eight of which requires two doses. Two of them are RNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna).
Three of the vaccines are viral vector-based vaccines and includes
- AstraZeneca, can be stored at 2-8oC for 6 months,
- Sputnik V can be stored at 2 and 8oC in powder form and -18oC in liquid
- Novavax (Johnson & Johnson): the only vaccine that is protein-based and can also be stored at 2-8oC
Another three of the vaccines are inactivated virus base vaccines (all can be stored at 2-8oC) and includes
- Covaxin (Indian native) can be stored at 2-8oC ,
- SinoVac and
- Sinofarma (both are Chine’s vaccines and can be stored at 2-8oC
- Moderna is US based and need storage at -200C for 6 months
- Pfizer is Germany’s “CureVac and BioNTech” (Pfizer). Both these vaccines used messenger RNA based new technology that previously has not produced any product (except Pfizer) to the satisfaction of the regulators. Pfizer is a risk-free vaccine and need storage at -700C. It does not contain the virus itself but carries all the virus related “genetic information” that can be synthesize in the laboratory on large scale.,
- Israel has developed her own vaccine which is being administered on to the Israeli population. I did ask a question to them through “Facebook” to know the type of vaccine they are administering to their population but not received any reply.
Other vaccines are based on viral DNA, or on viruses which have been weakened, which don’t produce disease and in which genetic information related to COVID-19 virus can be inserted.
A non-virologist may ask a question:
“What if the viruses which have been weakened and which do not produce disease “get activated” after having genetic information of COVID-19 inserted into their genome and transformed it into a more deadly virus than COVID-19?
After all, latent infection occurs when an infecting virus living in a cell for years without giving rise to progeny virus or damaging the cells gets re-activated, replicated and cause disease: may be deadlier than the original one?
Although the mechanism for this is not completely understood because many such infections occur in isolated areas of the body (such as the nervous system), where it is difficult for the immune system to recognize the infected cell, but the possibility is there”?
Mystery regarding vaccine availability
As the vaccine’s availability started in 2021, speculations started arising, will it be sufficient to fulfill the huge global demand? The answer was “not a clear no.” Skepticism prevailed because heavy bookings were made in advance for first available vaccine. US administration (under former President) reportedly signed deals worth US$6 billion (Biden administration denied signing any of such deals) with vaccine companies (probably AstraZeneca) who was expected to deliver 300 million doses of a safe and effective vaccine by January 2021. Europe’s “Inclusive Vaccines Alliance” formed by France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands signed deal to buy 400 million doses of vaccine from AstraZeneca for EU member states. UK also signed deals with and other companies as well.
People got apprehensive, will the needy be provided or not the required doses of vaccines?
The heads of “Global Development Division” of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) opined that “it would be ludicrous if low-risk people in rich countries get the vaccine when health care workers in South Africa don’t,”. Can anybody believe this? I guess none. Demonstrations started in Berlin against BMGF vaccine but, who cares when money matter and business interests are taken care off?
It would be remarkably interesting to read what the people in the developing countries think about BMGF. Vast majority is of the opinion that years before the spread of disease, BMGF has prepared and tested COVID-19 vaccine with investment of millions and billions of dollars and now is the time to reap the benefit of their investment: creation and spread of disease is only a tool for this objective.
This perception is so strong that people get violent upon just listening that such and such initiatives are being taken by BMGF. A textbook example of this is “distribution and utilization of Polio vaccine in Pakistan” Nobody wants their children to get vaccinated by BMGF vaccine. They would probably tolerate the death and/or disability of their child but will not vaccinate them.
This is the third sign of suspicion because nobody trusts BMGF
The most expensive thing in this world is trust. It can take years to earn and only seconds to lose and BMGF has lost it
Did you get the answer dear readers? If not yet no problem, read part-2.
See you next week, Bye.
