A bad omen for public trust in vaccines
A medic administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at a vaccination centre in Malpura village near Beawar in Ajmer, Rajasthan.
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Over the last few years, multiple petitions have been filed before the courts regarding vaccines. While most of them pertain to COVID-19 vaccines, two of them pertain to a rabies vaccine and a rotavirus vaccine. While not all these petitions have been admitted by the courts, they reflect growing concerns related to how vaccines are approved and administered in India.Concerns in petitions
It would be a mistake to dismiss these petitions as part of the larger ‘anti-vax’ movement, which is fuelled primarily by conspiracy theories. One ...