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3 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Why is Mr Poonawala thanking Gates Foundation? No, this isn’t a conspiracy theory. 🙂
A sizeable grant from Gates Foundation ensures that SSI, a key supplier of low cost vaccines across the world, doesn’t go bankrupt if the vaccine fails in trials. Short thread.
Bill Gates Foundation has been working with SSI since several years. The foundation has periodically given grants to SSI for supply of millions of doses of vaccine at very low cost.
Initial grant of 150 million USD to SSI for producing COVID vaccine was increased to 300 million USD for a total procurement of 20 crore doses of the vaccine at USD 3.00 each.
moneycontrol.com/news/business/…
How does this work? If SSI succeeds in creating an effective vaccine, the grant works as an order for procurement of millions of doses at predecided rates (3USD in case of COVID vaccine). If the vaccine is unsuccessful in trials, SSI can keep the money.
seruminstitute.com/news_sii_gavi_…
Details of strategic tie up between Codagenix (funded by Adjuvant) and SSI. Adjuvant Capital is a JV of Gates Foundation and JP Morgan. Profits, if any, made by the foundation are ploughed back into its philanthropic activities.
adjuvantcapital.com/news/codagenix…
Please read SII wherever I’ve written SSI, apologies for the typo.

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Disgusting letter by IMA HQ, invoking purity and turf as defence. What face will IMA have if Ayurvedic surgeons file a case against Modern Medicine practitioners for using surgical instruments and doing anal procedures and plastic surgery flaps described in Sushruta Samhita?
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Congress claims UIP was started by Rajiv Gandhi. Whereas it was actually started by the Morarji Desai government in 1978. Rajiv Gandhi govt renamed it in 1985 and declared its expansion pan India. But from 1985 to 2005, number of vaccinated children increased by just 2%.
The percentage of fully vaccinated children limped along from 44% in 2005-06 to just under 65% in 2014.
Finally in Dec 2014 it was taken into the fast lane with Mission Indradhanush: Immunisation of 100% children by 2020 is now within striking distance. deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/heal…
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Short thread on the Chinese vaccine for COVID19. An irresponsible govt starts vaccinating it’s own people without adequate proof of either safety or efficacy, bypassing phase 3 trials. Then finds out it isn’t generating an adequate response. But the problems are much deeper.
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This is the state of affairs at Vaishnodevi, one of the better managed shrine boards. There is absolutely no doubt that things have become a lot better for pilgrims after shrine board was established. I was in Katra waiting for Darshan with my family when this happened. 1/n
The average pilgrim waiting for Darshan welcomed it. Pandas went on strike in protest. So a few Brahmins from the security were dressed up as pandas and the Darshan was resumed. Have been to Vaishnodevi several times before and after the takeover. Things have only improved. 2/n
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The reason is utter miscommunication. Short thread.
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2. Online confirmation of allotment on govt portal should have led to the college website for fee payment but this linkage was missing.
3. Parents were not informed that if the fees were not paid to the college by 5PM on 3rd September, the admission would be canceled. I am speaking as a parent who barely managed to complete admission a few minutes before the deadline for my own daughters admission.
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