{"id":8982,"date":"2021-02-11T07:32:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T07:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2021-02-11T07:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T07:32:46","slug":"astrazeneca-vaccine-could-get-who-emergency-approval-by-mid-february-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2021\/02\/11\/astrazeneca-vaccine-could-get-who-emergency-approval-by-mid-february-who\/","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca vaccine could get WHO emergency approval by mid-February: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\"><strong>AstraZeneca\u2019s COVID vaccine is in the final stages of review for a World Health Organization emergency-use listing and could receive approval by mid-February, the United Nations health agency said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">In a joint briefing with the WHO\u2019s SAGE expert panel on immunisation, officials recommended the shot should be widely used, emphasising that its benefits outweigh any risks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-inline bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1 bsac-hide-on-phone\">\n<div id=\"bsac-438396-1561138912\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-custom_code  bsac-hide-on-phone\" data-adid=\"438396\" data-type=\"custom_code\">\n<div id=\"v-arynews-tv-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cWe hope this will be followed very soon by the emergency-use listing of this product,\u201d the WHO\u2019s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told the briefing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Asked why the WHO was pushing ahead with recommendations on using the vaccine even before much-anticipated data from a large U.S. clinical trial of the shot, Alejandro Cravioto, chair of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, said the U.S. data was \u201cnot expected until into March\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cWe have thousands of people dying from the infection, in many countries of the world, daily,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cAnything we can do to use a product that might reduce that is totally justified, even if the information\u2026 is not (as) complete as we like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AstraZeneca\u2019s COVID vaccine is in the final stages of review for a World Health Organization emergency-use listing and could receive approval by mid-February, the United Nations health agency said on Wednesday. In a joint briefing with the WHO\u2019s SAGE expert panel on immunisation, officials recommended the shot should be widely used, emphasising that its benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}