PAK HAS ACQUIRED COVID VACCINE FROM CHINA,BETTER THAN THE US/UK Vaccines which are produced by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-Astra Zeneca.

No alt text provided for this image

Dear readers in a move to acknowledge Prime Minister Imran Khan’s successful policies against Covid19, World Economic Forum (WEF) has celebrated ‘Pakistan Strategy Day’ on November 25 2020.This was yet another endorsement of Pakistan’s brilliant strategy of handling both Corona and Economy massive success. Prime Minister Imran Khan will be the Chief Guest at the Pakistan Strategy Day ceremony by WEF, other international forums had also stressed upon the fact that the world must learn from Pakistan. In pursuit of that Prime Minister Imran Khan and several ministers will interact with global business leaders and heads of multinational companies at a Country Strategy Dialogue (CSD) on Pakistan to be held by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.

Corona pandemic though highly scary yet not overwhelmingly devastating. Likewise in the case of COVID, access to Vaccine is far from being a new challenge, it is very evident & we're seeing extraordinary collaboration of civil society, industry, international organizations and others to accelerate access: working things in parallel, speeding up regulatory processes, devising supply mechanisms, securing procurement, mobilizing resources, etc. Yet we are likely to face a situation where helplessness seems major tumbling block, for instance, the vaccine would need to be constantly stored at, let's say, minus 80 Celsius degrees; or a situation where the treatment would need to be administered by a highly specialized health care worker; or where the diagnostic would need be analyzed by a sophisticated laboratory. How about cost /affordability issues? Indeed there is a concept in product development and manufacturing that's called "design to cost." The basic idea is that the cost management conversation happens at the same time as the product being designed, as opposed to the product being designed first and then reworked to bring the cost down. It's a simple method that helps ensure that when cost has been identified as a priority criteria for a product, it's made a target from day one. What if nothing of that kind contemplated in case of COVID-19. What to do? Ladies & gentlemen in this Article we shall explore the threat scenarios, choices for remedy& options to envision our foresight & be in the right mindset to face local/global health challenges prudently.

1. In Pakistan no one wants to be wearing a mask or wash their hands frequently with sanitizer for 20 seconds. It’s interesting that in our minds, we keep thinking of the vaccine discovery like it's the Gift from Heaven. Therefore we are absolved of all responsibilities. What seems most pertinent is that we need to understand about COVID that because of its speed and magnitude, it's exposing all of us to the same challenges and giving us a flavor of challenges we're not used to the tools to fight COVID, and the dynamics of treatment of Corona with vaccine, which we need to make it accessible to all. Each one of us want PM Imran Khan to do mystic and find us An ANTIDOTE OF PEOPLE DEPRESSION, CORONA VACCINE & POLITICAL DISARRAY. What to do?

2 .Rumors have a bad reputation in Pakistan. They're seen as not fact, wrong, or "just a rumor. For example Corona is not more devastating than PTI Regime or Corona is being used as a tool to let the economy of Pakistan collapse? One of the most moving or alarming rumor about pandemics was spread in northern Nigeria (later in Pakistan) .It wasn't the rumor itself that was so alarming; it was the global impact of that rumor. The rumors were suspecting that the polio vaccine was actually a contraceptive. It was aiming to control populations -- or maybe it causes AIDS. One of the dogma was maybe it's the CIA spying on people or counting them. Why would they have west oriented people knocking on their door again and again with the same polio vaccine? When children were dying of measles, no one was coming with measles vaccines etc, etc. This wasn't about getting the facts right. This was about trust. It was about broken trust. Why so much distrust? It wasn't the mothers who were particularly distrusting, actually. It was the local leaders, the religious leaders, the political leaders. Why such distrust? Well, it was two years after 9/11 and they were convinced that the West, and particularly the United States, was at war with Muslims . And they knew that the West, and particularly the United States, was a huge supporter -- and funder -- of the global polio eradication initiative. This time too romour mongers & mafias would harp similar tune, may be more injurious to faith of the people? So what to do?

3. Given the speed of the virus and the magnitude of the consequences we're facing, we have to continue challenging ourselves to find the fastest way to make products to fight COVID and future pandemics accessible to all. Let’s make sure we're on the same page in terms of what "access" means. It would actually mean that the product exists; that it's working sufficiently well; that it's been approved by the local authorities; that it is affordable; but also that there is evidence that it works in all the populations that need it, and that can include pregnant women or immuno-depressed people, or children; that it can be distributed in a variety of settings, like hospitals or rural clinics, or hot climate or cold climate among people of different faith /cultures; and that we can produce it at the right scale. It's a very long checklist of unanswered queries. So what do we do?

4. A single vaccine will not get us out of trouble. What we need is an arsenal of alternatives. We need vaccines, we need therapeutics, and we need diagnostics to make sure that we can prevent, identify and treat COVID cases in a variety of populations. What will happen when one of those clinical trials demonstrates that the vaccine is effective? Will it be a dream come true, we can all run to the pharmacy next door, we get the product, we take off our masks and we go back to merry making ? No there is a difference between the existence of a product and access to that product by all stake holders, most definitely the next challenge will be supply in abundance for 1st dose, booster dose, next dose etc,etc. The current estimate/hope of the global community is that by the mid/end of 2021 -- so that's over a year after the discovery of the vaccine -- we would have enough doses to cover one to two billion of the eight billion of us on the planet. So who will have to wait? How do we think about access when supply is short? WON'T IT BE CREATION OF NEW WEALTH ORDER BY THE CAPITALISTS ?WHO WILL ORCHESTRATE ISSUES OF PEOPLE/GLOBAL HEALTH IN HIGHLY DISORDERLY WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY SEEKERS? What to do?

 5. So assuming we let the market forces play, and those who can pay the highest price or be the fastest to negotiate deals will get access to the product first. It's not equitable at all. Fine, we let the market forces play, and those who can pay the highest price or be the fastest to negotiate deals will get access to the product first. It's not equitable at all, but it's a very likely scenario. Supposing countries who have demonstrated that they can manage the pandemic well would get access to the product first. But hold on, years ago, when the supply of high-quality second-line tuberculosis drug was scarce, a special committee was established to determine which countries had health systems that were strong enough to ensure that the products would be distributed properly and that patients would follow their treatment plans properly. Those selected countries got access first. Will it be the same criterion then will it be true to say Pakistan name would be on top of the list?We are celebrating today as offering tribute to PM Imran Khan since the WEF protocol says...

6. Presuming we could decide on a random rule, for instance, elderly people first or that people get to be vaccinated on their birthday.  How does it feel to think of a future where the vaccine exists, but you would still have to wear a mask and keep your kids home from school, and you would not be able to go to work the way you want because you wouldn't have access to that product? Every day that passed would feel unacceptable, right? But guess what? There are many diseases for which we have treatments and even cures, and yet people keep being infected and die every year. Let's take tuberculosis: 10 million people infected every year, 1.5 million people dying, although we've had a cure for years. And that's just because we haven't completely figured out some of the key access issues. What to do? 

7. Granted, equitable access is the right thing to do, but there is a health and an economic argument to equitable access. The health argument is that as long as the virus is active somewhere, we're all at risk of reimported cases. The economic argument is that because of the interdependencies in our economies, no domestic economy can fully restart if others are not picking up as well. Think of the sectors that rely on global mobility, like aerospace or travel and tourism. Think of the supply chains that cut across the globe, like textiles or automotive. Think of the share of the economic growth that is coming from emerging markets. The reality is that we need all countries to be able to crush the pandemic in sync.  But how do we do that? 

Danger of Coronavirus Mutations for Vaccine Efficacy

8. The initial genome of COVID-19, consisting of 30,000 letters, was revealed in January 2020.Since, then mutations - consisting of a letter change in the genome - have been reported all over the world. More than 13,000 of these changes are now found in the 100,000 Sars-CoV-2 sequenced to date. But any two viruses from any two patients anywhere in the world differ on average by only 10 letters, meaning Sars-CoV-2 is part of a single clonal lineage. While adaptive changes may yet occur, all the available data at this stage suggests we’re facing the same virus since the start of the pandemic. Possible decreases in symptom severity seen over the summer are probably a result of younger people being infected, containment measures (such as social distancing) and improved treatment rather than changes in the virus itself. A good news which still is susceptible to further research on mutations of Covid19 & reconfirmation before the final decision for administration of Vaccine starts in human at mass scale.

OPTION & COURSE OF ACTION

9. Most people believe that vaccines are good and they believe in their importance. But that belief is under attack. We need to build in more opportunities for consensus and there are ways to do it. It's not easy for some health professionals to have conversations where their authority is questioned. We should get volunteers trained to sit in waiting rooms, to be on hotlines, to have online chat forums, to have chat boxes. In younger kids, with younger kids in school, teach them about immune systems and teach them that actually, you know that vaccine your little brother got? Well, it just inspired your natural immune system.

10. We need to build that confidence; we need to listen. Our optimism is with a younger generation. The younger generation who actually now are becoming very aware of the risks of social media, the false news, the false identities, and they're starting to embrace science and some of them are a group of children whose mothers refused to vaccinate them. In truest perspective, unless the virus disappears, there are two ways this story ends. Either the scales tip one way -- only some of us get access to the product and COVID remains a threat to all of us -- or we balance the scales, we all get access to the right weapons, and we all move on together. Innovative R and D can't beat COVID alone, but innovative management of R and D might help.

11. Lastly, we sincerely wish Global Community &Joe Biden Regime. to play its greater role through G-20,WEF & WHO in managing & orchestrating the symphony of Global Health issue better than ever in the history of mankind.

要查看或添加评论,请登录

Col (R) Hassan Yousuf的更多文章

社区洞察

其他会员也浏览了