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Sandipan Talukdar
New ‘COVID Tongue’ Symptom Identified, Claims Expert
18 Jan 2021
Thick patches over tongue and mouth ulcers have been detected in Covid-19 patients but the symptoms are yet to be listed by the WHO.
Ishupal Singh Kang
How Long Must Poorer Nations Wait for Access to Covid Vaccine?
07 Jan 2021
For all the talk about vaccines being a global public good, industrialised nations are dragging their feet on an arrangement proposed by South Africa and India at the WTO for equitable and widespread…
PTI
India Recorded Largest Reduction in Malaria Cases in South-East Asia in 2000-2019: WHO
01 Dec 2020
The number of cases in the country came down from 20 million in 2000 to about 5.6 million last year, according to World Malaria Report 2020.
Sandipan Talukdar
Interrupted Vaccination Got Measles Deaths to Soar in 2019
13 Nov 2020
Public health experts attribute the soaring measles deaths to years of insufficiency in vaccine coverage.
Prabir Purkayastha
DST’s Super Model: Or How not to Model an Epidemic
30 Oct 2020
‘The DST Super Model paper, hurriedly published in the Indian Journal Medical Research, does not seem to have even been proof read properly by the authors; or checked seriously by the journal.’
Prabir Purkayastha
Even with Vaccines, It is a Long and Rocky Road to Immunity
27 Sep 2020
Even if the major economies can solve their own problems of procuring the vaccines by jumping the queue with money or captive production capacities, what about the rest of the world?
Peoples Dispatch
Trump Deliberately Downplayed COVID-19 Risks and Delayed Responses, Claims Upcoming Book
11 Sep 2020
Recordings of Donald Trump’s telephone interview with journalist Bob Woodward reveal that he was aware of the deadly nature of the novel coronavirus infection in January itself but deliberately…
Sudhansu Mohanty
Mother Nature and the Ides of a Pandemic
12 Aug 2020
‘...environmental violations aside, consider the buccaneering desecrations of nature that the EIA presages. It is these that provide a neat segue into the lessons we have not learned from the COVID-…
Prabir Purkayastha
Trump’s Withdrawal from WHO: a Cover-up for its Abject Failure on COVID-19
18 Jul 2020
‘The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right-wing…
Peoples Dispatch
UN’s Envoy to Yemen Calls for Probe into Saudi Coalition Strike That Killed 11
18 Jul 2020
The airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a house where people had gathered for a celebration led to the death of at least 11 people according to the UN humanitarian coordination office. Houthi…