8 Jul 2022 In the back drop of freshly reported variant of concern (voc) from India, which is currently dubbed Omicron2.75 ( is it because coincidentally it could be 2 & 3 quarters as potent in transmission as the original Wuhan strain?) we can take a fresh look at how at a fundamental level we […]
Tag: CDC's Corona Debacles
13 April 2021 Two cases were widely discussed in social media and news media- one of a verbal assault on a Covid Administrator in a Government Hospital in MP and another of a youth dying in Bengaluru without gaining access to a ICU bed with ventilator. Both were actually related, as is the more recent […]
08 April 2021 If there is one major defining moment for this Pandemic it is actually the role of populism and by extension prejudices in the management of the Pandemic so far. More than a year later, one cannot do much on Twitter other than report a handle in categories other than what it should […]
08 March 2021 Shailaja Teacher can take a bow even now. It is not possible to sustain a campaign over a year is what folks will have us believe in India. Of course, God’s own country first responded with the memory and the strength of having dealt with Nipah an experience the rest of India […]
10 February 2021 We can first make some postulates about these ethical templates so that we can examine the major faultlines that fractured our scientific community in this Pandemic.Firstly I shall use no jargon, no terminology because my intention here is not to create a set of new theories, rather it is an attempt to […]
Slowly Surely Solidarity
17 October 2020 As expected the repurposed stuff did not work. after all Remdesivir was being used for Ebola (filo virus), there is no anti viral drug (Lipinavir/ritonavir too) yet which is successful against Corona Viruses in general out there. We already had major doubts about Hydroxychloroquine. We also knew that interferons like Tocilizumab and […]