Plenty of details of what the US Covid aid package to India will be. According to administration officials:
1. ''Department of Defense exploring the provision of field oxygen generation systems, which we’ve used in our own field hospitals to provide oxygen for 50 to 100 beds.''
2. ''The US has identified U.S. commercial suppliers of remdesivir that are immediately available'' .. ''we’ve identified rapid diagnostic testing supplies, as well as personal protective equipment, that will be available to be transferred to India immediately.''
3. ''... before any AstraZeneca doses can be shipped from the United States, the FDA will confirm that any such doses meet its expectations for product quality.''
4. ''... at this moment, contrary to what some have heard, there are no AstraZeneca doses that have completed and cleared that process to be sent to other countries ...''
5. ''We expect that there are approximately 10 million doses that could be released if and when FDA gets — gives its concurrence, which could happen in the coming weeks.''
6. The United States expects an estimated additional 50 million doses that are in various stages of production of the AZ vaccine to be made available to countries across May and June.
7. On filters being diverted to the Serum Research Institute of India: ''These are 36 millipore filters that would have been used to manufacture AstraZeneca vaccine that will be used to manufacture the Covishield AstraZeneca vaccine — vaccine serum.''
8. ''The U.S. CDC, working with USAID, will urgently deploy a strike team to India which will include public health experts to work in close collaboration with our embassy, with India’s health ministries and experts, and with India’s Epidemic Intelligence Service staff.''
9. ''That strike team will work hand in hand with India’s experts in a number of areas, including laboratory services; surveillance and epidemiology; bioinformatics for sequencing and modeling of the disease; infection, prevention, and control; vaccines rollout; and risk comms.''
10. ''The strike team will also include CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officers and laboratory leadership service officers who will work directly with India’s experts in peer engagements for the model for areas to allow support at the state and the local level. ''
11. ''Support from the strike team could also support India being able to immediately add residents to an epidemiology class sizes to add new training experts in the Field of Epidemiology Training Program frontline cohort, where we’re already working together.''
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