E-DRUG: Fourth Medical Product Quality Report - COVID-19 Vaccine Issues
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Dear colleagues,
We are writing to share the fourth Medical Product Quality Report -
COVID-19 Vaccine Issues. The report lists incidents and problems,
accessible in the public domain, with substandard and falsified (SF),
diverted and stolen COVID-19 vaccines.
The report can be downloaded from the following links:
https://www.iddo.org/document/medical-product-quality-report-covid-19-vaccine-issues-data-30-april-2021
https://www.tropmedres.ac/research-areas/medicine-quality.
This report is a cumulative report with data up to the 30th of April 2021.
Newly added reports since the last issue (up to 31th of March) are
indicated in red.
We include 109 reports from the lay press from 35 countries and the dark
web since the start of the pandemic. Nineteen of these lay press articles
discussed missing or diverted COVID-19 vaccine doses.
When the vaccines were stated as unauthorised copies of approved vaccines, they were copies of products from Pfizer/BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Sinopharm, Moderna, Sputnik V, and Johnson & Johnson.
Empty COVID-19 vaccine vials are available for sale as well, facilitating the efforts of criminal groups to produce falsified vaccines.
Inequitable access is highly likely to fuel the occurrence of such
incidents, negating the global good on health and economy of these
remarkable vaccines. We urgently need joined-up interventions to reduce the
risk of SF COVID-19 vaccines on global public health, through significant
enhancements in global capacity for their prevention, detection, and
response.
Any remarks or additions to content are greatly appreciated (please write
to medicinequality@iddo.org). We would be delighted if you could
disseminate this information within your network.
Very best wishes,
Kerlijn Van Assche, Celine Caillet, Paul N Newton
Medicine Quality Research Group, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
(IDDO) & Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU), Centre for Tropical Medicine
& Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Kerlijn Van Assche <kerlijn.vanassche@iddo.org>