Adverse events are among the most heavily scrutinised parts of the covid-19 vaccine process. But India’s adverse events reporting system was woefully unprepared for this, leaving families confused, sowing vaccine hesitancy in communities, while robbing the system of valuable data, reports Priyanka Pulla.
Around a week after she received her first dose of Covishield, the Indian version of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine, 20 year old Rijuta developed a blinding headache. On 2 June 2021, she...
