Month: May 2021

The CoWin platform has been inundated after registrations opened for the 18-44 group. The crush will ease with increased supplies, National Health Authority head R S Sharma told Sushmi Dey. Excerpts from the interview:One finds a lot of noise around CoWin at present, mainly with users not finding a slot while trying to schedule appointments. CoWin facilitates registration of users and scheduling of vaccination slots, besides other utilities. While registration is open to all, scheduling is a function of availability and supply of vaccines. For instance, if only 100 passenger trains seating a thousand passengers are running daily, and 10 lakh people log into IRCTC to book, we know where the issue stems from. Further, the noise started surfacing particularly after registrations for18 to 44 ...

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Three cases of ischaemic stroke reported in young adults following administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Clots in the arteries (arterial thrombosis) are the most common cause of stroke (ischaemic stroke) and have been reported in detail for the first time in young adults who received the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine in a letter from UK stroke specialists published online in Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. While rare cases of blood clots have been reported previously after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine, these have affected veins and most specifically veins in the brain (cerebral venous sinuses). People who have experienced this unusual form of stroke (cerebral venous sinus thrombosis) have also had low platele...

“You’ve got to go where the action is” to study viruses like these, Fauci said. “You don’t want to study bats in Fairfax County, Va., to find out what the animal-human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species.” The $600,000 was used to fund surveillance for coronaviruses in bats, Fauci said.