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Deflation in China – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #840 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #840 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Bryanken Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: Mr. Dong In Pakistan, we are suffering from severe inflation. The prices are going up and the government is adding fuel to fire by raising prices of fuel, electricity, gas, crop buying, and by increasing wages of government employees by 35%. Every increase in this area adds to inflation. People are suffering hugely while the government does not seem to care. We are almost in a state of hyperinflation and the life is really biting everyone. While inflation represents rising prices, its opposite is ‘deflation’ which represents...

More Facts About Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #755 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #755 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: EVG Kowalievska Photo Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Photo Credit: Max Fischer An excerpt from a study published on 5th January 2023 in BMC Infectious Diseases Journal. The study was conducted in the Palestinian territory.  [Quote] Approximately one-third of participants reported no adverse effects after receiving the first, second, or third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, with 34%, 33.6%, and 32.5%, respectively. Participants who received more than one dose experienced more side effects. The most commonly reported adverse effects were ...

More Facts About Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: August de Richelieu Photo Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich NINE PAGES REFERENCE There is much talk about 9 pages of side effects. This comes from Pfizer/FDA document titled ‘BNT 162b2 – 5.3.6 – Cumulative Analysis of Adverse Events Reports. The 9-pages are Appendi1. LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST. It is a lot of medical terminology which is not relevant for non-medical people. You may follow the link to see these adverse events. In all, it is a 38-page document (including 9 pages). I shall give some o...

More Facts About Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Pat 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #752 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #752 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: Google Images When COVID19 started from Wuhan, China and rapidly gripped the world, the talk of vaccine started immediately. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine took the lead in introducing its mRNA-based vaccine. It was closely followed by Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. China and Russia also delivered their conventional vaccines. The vaccines were administered worldwide, despite the initial inequality when the developed nations kept most of the stock for their own population. Some statistics are staggering. • 13....

COVID19 Updates – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #675 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #675 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: CDC Photo Credit: Cottonbro These posts are based on a July 28, 2022, article and the WHO living guidelines. The links appear at the end. Continued from Previous…… Paxlovid and other COVID19 therapeutics are widely available only in high-income countries. For example, in the United States, supply is more than demand, but in low-income countries, the access to these options is either severely restricted or altogether absent. The picture is the same as was seen in the case of COVID19 vaccines; the low-income countries were scrambling for vaccines while high-income c...

SARS-CoV-2 – Global Update and Impact – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #576 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #576. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. World Health Organization is publishing an update every day. Following information is derived from their report of 14 December 2021. • The weekly incidence of new cases and deaths declined during second week of December by 5% and 10% respectively.  • Still, there were 4 million new confirmed cases and about 47,000 new deaths.  • African region reported 111% increase in new cases last week. • As of 12 December, nearly 269 million confirmed cases and about 5.3 million deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been reported worldwide. It may be safely assumed that...

SARS-CoV-2 Variants – Part 2 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #575 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #575. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. In addition to the variants described in the last post, ECDC reports following additional variants. • Mu, Lambda, and 1 undetermined each from Colombia, Peru, and UK respectively as VOI • Alpha from UK, Epsilon from USA, Eta from Nigeria, Theta from Philippines, Kappa from India, Iota from USA, Zeta from Brazil, and 18 undetermined variants were identified but later de-escalated due to less prevalence. Vaccines Efficacy against Sars-COV-2 Variants The efficacy of all major vaccines has been determined against all Variants of Concern. Here is the snapshot. All results are for t...

SARS-CoV-2 Variants – Part 1 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #574 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #574. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. COVID19 became COVID20 – COVID21, and now going into COVID22. The world is still struggling with the epidemic which has become endemic in certain areas. Along with the timeline, the virus has mutated, and several variants have so far been detected and reported. The most recent Omicron variant has renewed the discussion on COVID. The job of detecting and studying variants is mostly done in the US and Europe, and the information is shared with the rest of the world. Curiously, Japan has not commented much on these cases although their research capability is highly developed.  I...

COVID Update – Blog Post #506 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #506. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. COVID-19 changed into COVID-20 and is continuing as COVID-21. The end seems near and then moves away. Here is an update about Pakistan, as reported on social media. Government data must be the basis of this information. Latest updates Pakistan – 4th July 2021 New Cases 1,228 Deaths            29 Tests    47,832  Positivity 2.57%   The cynics among us keep saying different things. The rumors and myths keep flying incessantly. Vaccination is becoming difficult because early adapters have received their jabs already, and the laggards include large number of ...

Impacts of COVID19 Pandemic on Pakistan III – Blog Post #466 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #466 Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… Agriculture and food security was also affected by COVID19 pandemic. This might have been ignored by general public in relation to impacts of COVID19. [Quote] The farming sector of Pakistan has not only served as a backbone for food security but has always been a major sup- port to the economy, being the highest contributor to GDP. Pakistan is the 8th largest producer of wheat, 10th largest of rice, 5th of sugarcane and 4th largest producer of milk in the world. Even with this standing, only 63.1% of the population has adequate supply of food sources to be c...

Impacts of COVID19 Pandemic on Pakistan II – Blog Post #465 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #465. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… While we write this, the third wave is already sweeping the country. There is every day increase in cases and fatalities. We shall come to this later. Economic repercussions are an integral part and logical consequence of any pandemic. From Spanish flu to SARS, decreased demand of goods and services, supply chain disruptions and loss of employment and income was expected and seen. COVID19 is no different. Because of worldwide closures, there was major disruption in production and shipment of goods. As soon as situation got better, the prices increased manifo...