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Prabir Purkayastha
Will Monkeypox Outbreak Replay AIDS and Covid-19 Script?
01 Jul 2022
The West cannot keep infectious diseases out any more than claim victory over them. Microbes evolve and strike back unless sporadic outbreaks are tackled wherever they occur.
Tanupriya Singh
Lauded by WHO, India’s Frontline Health Workers are Still Fighting for Basic Rights
28 May 2022
Over one million Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers have been awarded the WHO’s Global Health Leaders Award, recognizing their role in ensuring access to care in a health system that is…
Prabir Purkayastha
WHO Report on COVID-19 Excess Deaths: Modi Government’s Attempt to Shoot the Messenger
20 May 2022
Rather than investing all its energy in managing the narrative, the government could have set up an independent committee to look into excess deaths in India.
Associated Press
COVID Deaths Dropped by 21% Last Week but Cases Rising Globally: WHO
19 May 2022
Infections rose by over 60% in West Asia and 26% in the Americas, while deaths fell everywhere except Africa, where they jumped by nearly 50%.
PTI
COVID-19: WHO Says India had 4.7 Million Deaths; India Questions Model Used
06 May 2022
New estimates put full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic, described as “excess mortality”, between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021 at approximately 14.9…
Sandipan Talukdar
2 Omicron Subvariants Can Escape Immunity from Previous Infection, Vaccines
02 May 2022
A new study discovered that unvaccinated participants showed an eightfold decrease in antibody production when exposed to BA.4 and BA.5.
Richa Chintan
India’s Objections to WHO Study on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment Appear Untenable
23 Apr 2022
India has objected to the methodology in WHO’s Report to estimate the excess deaths, which has delayed its publication.
Associated Press
COVID-19 Cases Rise for Second Straight Week Globally, Deaths Fall: WHO
23 Mar 2022
In recent weeks, COVID-19 cases inched upward across Europe, prompted by the more infectious BA.2 subvariant of omicron and relaxation of nearly all public health measures.
Sandipan Talukdar
‘Recovery Trial’ Finds Anti-Arthritis Drug that Reduces Severe COVID-19 Mortality
04 Mar 2022
The trial found that Baricitinib reduces the mortality of hospitalised patients by 13%.
Richa Chintan
Top COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers Fail Poor Countries
22 Feb 2022
Pharma giants, like Pfizer, Modern and J&J, have neither contributed to WHO’s COVAX nor provided a significant number of doses to poorer countries.