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March 5, 2022Fourth COVID Wave in June: What Experts Have to Say on IIT Kanpur Study Predictions?
India.com — March 5, 2022. “In epidemiologist Ramanan Laxminarayan’s view, there will likely be new, smaller waves of the pandemic but the basis for the IIT Kanpur prediction is not clear. Emergence of new variants, continuation of vaccination coverage and eventually, a booster policy will determine when and how COVID-19 will re-emerge, Laxminarayan, director of […]
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February 28, 2022When Antibiotics Stop Working
Foreign Affairs — February 28, 2022. “Countries have paid heavily for not preparing adequately for the current pandemic. They should not repeat that mistake for this creeping pandemic that will only grow more intractable if not addressed.”
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February 22, 2022OxygenForIndia announces partnership with Swasth Alliance and Indiaspora to form National Oxygen Grid
Financial Express — February 22, 2022. OxygenForIndia, organized by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, partners with Swasth Alliance and Indiaspora in their efforts to inaugurate the National Oxygen Grid, which will utilize and leverage existing oxygen resources supplied during India’s second wave of SARS-CoV-2 in 2021.
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February 16, 2022The hidden epidemic
Vox — February 16, 2022. Although deaths from AMR now exceed the toll of HIV/AIDs and malaria, global funding to combat AMR is likely lower than the $50 billion being spent on tackling HIV annually, notes Ramanan Laxminarayan of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy.
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February 4, 2022Study assesses how vaccination against typhoid fever could help avert antimicrobial resistance
News-Medical.net — February 4, 2022. “This study, which is part of a larger research effort to study the effect of vaccines on averting antibiotic consumption, clearly demonstrates the tremendous value of vaccines in addressing AMR. Going forward, vaccines could be a major component of any global strategy to tackle drug-resistant infections,” Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, Study […]
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February 3, 2022CDDEP researchers show vaccination against typhoid fever could help avert antimicrobial resistance.
CDDEP researchers and other experts in the field predict that the first typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) could avert 46-74% of typhoid fever cases.
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January 26, 2022Antibiotic-resistant infections killed more than 1.2 million people in 2019
Healio News — January 26, 2022. “From being an unrecognized and hidden problem, a clearer picture of the burden of AMR is finally emerging. Even the lower end of 911,000 deaths estimated by [the researchers] is higher than the number of deaths from HIV, which attracts close to $50 billion each year.” Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, […]
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January 25, 2022Antimicrobial resistance
The World — January 25, 2022. Marco Werman speaks to Ramanan Laxminarayan, a senior research scholar at Princeton University, about the increasing number of fatalities caused by AMR.
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January 25, 2022The Next Pandemic Is Already Here: Superbugs and Factory Farms
Sentient Media — January 25, 2022. Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy told BBC, “Spending needs to be directed to preventing infections in the first place, making sure existing antibiotics are used appropriately and judiciously, and to bringing new antibiotics to market.”
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