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In an email, epidemiologist Dr. Giridhara Babu from Bengaluru’s Public Health Foundation of India explains why the Zero COVID strategy is impractical and difficult to sustain and tells what could…
“States prioritising schools for higher classes and not reopening primary schools reflects many things. One, scientific and epidemiological evidence is not what is used for decision making. Two, policy makers…
Now, a vaccine effectiveness study undertaken in Israel has shown that natural infection confers stronger immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 virus than even full vaccination. They found that people previously infected…
A similar pattern was seen on June 21 when a record 8.7 million doses were administered on a single day but dropped the next day to 5.8 million and remained…
On April 24 last year, at the daily Health Ministry briefing, NITI Aayog member Dr. V.K. Paul presented a chart predicting the trend of COVID-19 cases in India. With over…
There have been instances in some countries where the virus spread has largely been under some kind of control at least for some duration. However, the emergence of highly contagious…
In an email, Dr. Srinath Reddy, President of the Public Health Foundation of India and member of the National COVID-19 Technical Taskforce dispels the wrong notion that India is close to…
Virologist Dr. Shahid Jameel Director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University cites mandatory smallpox vaccination in several European countries. In 1853, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in England; Italy and Sweden made…
