Is it safe to take painkillers before or after getting vaccinated for coronavirus?

Can I take painkillers before or after a Covid-19 vaccine? Its best to avoid them, unless you routinely take them for a medical condition. Although the evidence is limited, some painkillers might interfere with the very thing the vaccine is trying to do: generate a strong immune system response. Vaccines work by tricking the body into thinking it has a virus and mounting a defense against it. That may cause arm soreness, fever, headache, muscle aches or other temporary symptoms of inflammation that can be part of that reaction. .... read more

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CMAAO Coronavirus Facts and Myth Buster - Lessons learnt from Novavax Trial

With input from Dr Monica Vasudev1343: Minutes of Virtual Meeting of CMAAO NMAs on “Lessons learnt from Novavax Trial” 30th January, Saturday, 9.30am-10.30am,Participants: Member NMAs; Dr KK Aggarwal, President CMAAO; Dr Yeh Woei Chong, Singapore Chair CMAAO; Dr Alvin Yee-Shing Chan, Hong Kong, Treasurer, CMAAO; Dr Ravi Naidu, Malaysia; Dr Marthanda Pillai, India, Member World Medical Council; Dr Marie Uzawa Urabe, Japan Medical Association; Dr Angelique Coetzee, President South African Medical Association; Dr Md Jamaluddin Chowdhury, Bangladesh Medical Association; Dr Qaiser Sajjad, Secretary General, Pakistan Medical Association; Dr Prakash Budhathoky, Treasurer, Nepal Medical Association; Dr Mulungile Nodikida, South African Medical Association Invitees: Dr Russell D’Souza, Australia UNESCO Chair in Bioethics; Dr Suresh Mittal; Dr Meenakshi Soni; Dr S Sharma, Editor IJCP Group Key points from the discussionJ&J vaccine is 66% effective in global trial but 85% effective against severe disease. There is a second wave in Brazil despite herd immunity. Four reasons have been given for this: overestimation of herd immunity, waning immunity, immunity-evading mutations and highly transmissible virus (South Africa variant). .... read more

World COVID Meter 4th February 2021: Acute manageable immunogenic thrombogenic inflammatory contagious viral disease pandemic

Cases: 1M April 2, 2M April 15, 3M April 27, 4M May 8, 5M May 20, 6M May 30, 7M June 7, 8M June 15, 9M June 22, 10M June 29th, 11M July 4, 12M July 8, 13M July 13, 14M July 17, 15M July 23, 16M July 25, 17M July 29, 18M August 1, 19M August 6, 20M August 10, 21M August 16, 22M August 19, 23M August 21, 24M August 27, 25M August 30, 26M September 3, 27M September 7, 28M September 10, 29M September 14, 30M September 18, 31M September 21, 32M September 23, 33M September 28, 34M October 1, 35M October 4, 36M October 8, 37M October 11, 38M October 14, 39M October 17, 40M October 19, 41M October 22, 42M October 24, 43M October 26, 44M October 28, 45M October 30, 46M November 2, 47M November 4, 48M November 6, 49M November 7, 50M November 8, 51M November 10, 52M November 12, 53M November 14, 54M November 15, 55M November 17, 56M November 19, 57M November 20, 58M November 22, 59M November 24, 60M November 25, 61M November 27, 62M November 29, 63M December 1, 64M December 2, 65M December 4, 66M December 6, 67M December 7, 68M December 9, 69M December 10, 70M December 12, 71M December 13, 72M December 14, 73M December 15, 74M December 17, 75M December 19, 76M December 20, 77M December 22, 78M December 23, 79M December 26, 80M December 27, 81M December 29, 82M December 30, 83M December 31, 84M January 2, 85M January 4, 86M January 6, 87M January 7, 88M January 8, 89M January 9, 90M January 10, 91M January 12, 92M January 14, 93M January 15, 94M January 17, 95M January 18, 96M January 20, 97M January 21, 98M January 23, 99M January 25, 100M January 26, 101M January 29, 102M January 30, 103M February 1 Ground Zero: Wuhan - in live animal market or cafeteria for animal pathogens: 10th January; Total cases are based on RT PCR, 67% sensitivity Coronavirus Cases: 104,888,983,Deaths:2,276,726,Recovered:76,615,146,ACTIVE CASES:25,853,086 .... read more

Think positive and think different

The mantra to acquire spiritual health is to think positive and differently. When you think positive, it creates positive hormones and takes you from sympathetic mode to parasympathetic mode. When you think different, it gives you opportunities and from multiple options available, you can ask your heart to choose one of them. Thinking positive was a message given by Lord Buddha and thinking different by Adi Shankaracharya. The candle light march for justice in the Jessica Lal murder case has been picked up by most of the protest campaigns because it was positive and different. .... read more

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Russias Sputnik V vaccine to seek India approval by March

health.economictimes.indiatimes.com

Indias Dr. Reddys Laboratories Ltd will seek emergency-use authorisation for Russias Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine by next month, a company official said on Wednesday, after peer-reviewed trial data confirmed its effectiveness. A source close to the drug regulator said the application could come within days and when approved, bolster Indias 18-day-old immunisation campaign which has covered more than 4 million people with two other shots.

Potential antiviral treatment for COVID-19 identified

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Researchers have identified an antiviral drug which is highly effective against the COVID-19 causing coronavirus, and could have major implications in how future disease outbreaks are managed. The team, including researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK, found that the plant-derived antiviral, at small doses, triggers a highly effective broad-spectrum host-centred antiviral innate immune response against three major types of human respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. Given that acute respiratory virus infections caused by different viruses are clinically indistinguishable, an effective broad-spectrum that can target different virus types at the same time could significantly improve clinical management, the researchers said.

As vaccine race heats up, all eyes now on efficacy

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On Tuesday, a Lancet study touted 91.6% efficacy rate for Sputnik V, the highest so far. A day later, another analysis of AstraZeneca’s trial yielded an 82.4% efficacy rate. These results add to a plethora of interim efficacy data that range between 50%-95%. Mint decodes: Vaccine efficacy measures the reduction in disease within a group of people who have received a jab during a clinical trial as compared to those who received placebo. It is determined during the phase 3 trial—the most difficult stage of the three-stage process. In case of Sputnik V, since 16 out of 14,964 participants in the vaccine group and 62 of 4,902 in the placebo group were confirmed to have covid-19, it showed that the vaccine is effective against the deadly virus with an success rate of 91.6%. It is crucial that the vaccine shows a satisfactory efficacy data during the clinical trial to justify its application among healthy people.

Britain To Test Mixing And Matching Of COVID-19 Vaccines

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British scientists are starting a study Thursday to find out if it’s OK to mix and match COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccines being rolled out now require two doses, and people are supposed to get two shots of the same kind, weeks apart. Guidelines in Britain and the U.S. say the vaccines aren’t interchangeable, but can be mixed if the same kind isnt available for the second dose or if its not known what was given for the first shot. Participants in the government-funded study will get one shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine followed by a dose from Pfizer, or vice versa.