Vaccine Shots in Abudance; But Volunteers are Few! 

Due to safety concerns, some frontline workers are pondering getting vaccine shots in India.  The vaccine has yet to finish Phase 3 trials. As the world struggling with enough vaccine shots, India facing a shortage of volunteers with having plenty of shots in its hand. 
 
Vinod Kumar, a resident doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences of Patna, in the eastern state of Bihar said that "At least 40% of doctors here are unsure and want to wait. Carrying out a vaccine trial on us when India is short of doctors, health-care workers don't make sense." 
 
Adarsh Pratap Singh, a member of the Resident Doctors Association at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi said that "Many in our institute aren't comfortable with Covaxin because we don't know how effective it is. To build trust among people the government must come out with the data, evidence of the trials, and encourage free and fair discussions." 
 
Regarding this shortage of volunteers  V. K. Paul, a member of the planning body Niti Aayog stated, "Vaccine hesitancy among health workers should end ... I am pleading on behalf of the government, that please adopt it. Because no one knows how this pandemic will take shape in the future," He noted that he's taken the Covaxin shot without any adverse effects. "These two vaccines are safe. We have a system to track it and if there is an unusual signal, it will be responded to the way it should be." he added. 

 

 

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