The campus proposes different steps, where the more complicated scenario is if students receive a vaccine that has not been approved by WHO, such as sputnik or covaxin.
WASHINGTON: Since March, more than 400 universities and US universities have announced students to get Covid-19 vaccinations, ahead of the fall semester but those who have been inoculated with original Indian covaxin or Russian-made V Sputnik are asked to re-vaccinate as this vaccine has not been approved World Health Organization (WHO).
Rukmini Callimachi reported at The New York Times that Milloni Doshi, a 25-year-old student from India, who will begin his master’s degree, this fall in the Columbia University and Public School, has been given two doses of Covaxin. Now, Columbia tells him that he needs to be given revakat with a different vaccine once he arrived on campus.
“I’m just worried about taking two different vaccines. They say the application process will be the hardest part of the cycle, but it really is all this uncertain and induces anxiety,” Doshi wrote through a messaging application.
The campus proposes different steps, where a more complicated scenario is if students receive a vaccine that is not approved by WHO, such as Sputnik or Covaxin. Many universities propose that these students need to be given revakat, which presents medical and logistic puzzles.
This is mainly because there is no data about whether combing vaccines from various companies are safe. “Because the Covid-19 vaccine cannot be exchanged, safety and effectiveness receive two different Covid-19 vaccines have not been studied,” Christian Nordlund, a spokesman for the Center for Control and Prevention (CDC).
Nordlund also suggested that people vaccinate outside the US with vaccines that were not authorized by who had to wait at least 28 days before taking the first dose of one vaccine (FDA) -Sectioned Administration (FDA).
American students have access to Pfizer Vaccines, Modera and Johnson & Johnson, three of the eight doses authorized by Global Health Body. This disparity can inhibit universities that make it a top priority to maintain international students, which carry almost 39 billion dollars in school money from the year before the pandemic, according to the analysis.
“The university wants to register international students because they add diversity to the campus community – and they bring money … that’s why this is a subject of intense discussion,” said Terry W Hartle, senior vice president at the American Education Council.