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In an email, Dr. Giridhara Babu, Epidemiologist at the Public Health Foundation of India, Bengaluru explains why doing away with RT-PCR testing is not correct and how it could endanger…
It reached the low point on June 21 when only over 0.3 million cases were reported. But there has been an ever-increasing rise in cases globally since then. July 15…
Considering that Kerala and Maharashtra have shown high integrity in testing and reporting cases, should a sustained spike in daily cases in these two States serve as a bellwether of…
Against a daily tally of over 4,000 deaths in May this year, The Economist estimated between 6,000 and 31,000 excess deaths per day. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation…
In the case of AstraZeneca, effectiveness against hospitalisation after full vaccination was 92%, while it was 96% in the case of Pfizer. The results have been posted as a preprint.…
Much like other viruses, SARS-CoV-2 too could have a natural origin after it jumped from animals to humans or could have somehow escaped from the coronavirus research lab located in…
In an email, Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Professor of Microbiology at CMC Vellore and Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya, physician-epidemiologist and a vaccines and health systems expert discuss the ethical and structural challenges…
The study has been published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. “Our study shows that COVID-19 vaccines have a great benefit in reducing infection and severity of disease. Vaccination helps…
