Pfizer, Moderna and let private players make Covaxin more aggressively we could significantly ramp up the administration and build up enough immunity to get out of this faster.

Not allowing labs and hospitals to procure and facilitate vaccines is a huge untapped potential."India is suffering the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak and its health care system is collapsing as it runs short of everything from hospital beds to oxygen cylinders.

Although the South Asian nation is one of the world’s biggest vaccine makers, supply locally has run dry amid an expansion of access to everyone aged 18 and above.To date, India’s public health care operators have done nearly all the heavy lifting in treating Covid patients.

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