Medicine & Surgery
Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine
2020-21Bharat Biotech & ICMRCovaxin (inactivated virus vaccine)Pan-Indian / unspecified
2020
An indigenously developed inactivated-virus COVID-19 vaccine.
- Dated
- 2020–2021
- As scholars put it
- 2020-21
- Originator
- Bharat Biotech & ICMR
- Source text
- Covaxin (inactivated virus vaccine)
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
Early approval before phase-3 results drew criticism.
Path to modern innovation
Used in India's mass vaccination drive.
Builds on
1892Transmission
WHO Emergency Use Listing (Nov 2021).
References
- 1WHO EUL (2021)
- 2Ella et al., Lancet (2021)
Further reading
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