Principal Scientific Adviser K VijayRaghavan on Saturday said India has an extraordinary history of bringing out successful vaccines which have transformed the health care system, similar to that for smallpox, “which were administered without much discussion.” The investments made for vaccines does not mean shortcuts and huge investments in vaccination trials have enabled processes to happen in parallel to speed up the development, he said, participating in a function through video conference. “Vaccines are administered to healthy people. Therefore, the demand for trials and safety are enormous.
A vaccine that is administered has to be safe,has to have an immune response that suggests it can deal with the infection and must be effective in the field”, he said at ‘Sangam2020,’ the annual flagship event of IIT Madras Alumni Association “India has got an extraordinary history of successful vaccinations… India was successful in putting forth vaccines which completely transformed the health care system.