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October 2, 2020Viruses Are Always Trying To Jump From Animals To Humans: Ramanan Laxminarayan, Founder, CDDEP
NDTV — COVID-19 was not unexpected for many of us, said Ramanan Laxminarayan, Founder, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy at the 12-hour #SwasthyaMantra telethon. He added that viruses are always trying to jump from animals to humans, while some may not succeed, some may wreak havoc as done by SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus.
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October 2, 2020Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
BBC News — The largest contact tracing study to date emphasizes the huge role that superspreading events play on diseases transmission; while 71% of the infected persons may not end up infecting others, a small percentage of those infected could be responsible for up to 60% of the infections. Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of CDDEP, elaborates on these […]
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October 2, 2020Big contact-tracing study shows the role of kids and superspreaders in coronavirus pandemic
CNN – “This is the largest contact-tracing study in the world, and by a long shot,” Dr. Laxminarayan said. “We were surprised to find that just 8% of the infected primary cases were responsible for 60% of the contacts that were infected,” he said. “That’s a hugely disproportionate effect. Superspreading has been suspected, but not really documented.”
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October 1, 2020Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan of CDDEP on contact tracing study of COVID-19
Times Now — The largest contact tracing study in the world, based on data collected by tens of thousands of contact tracers in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu has thrown up lesser-known findings that can help us understand the way Covid 19 spreads in India and across the world.
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October 1, 2020Kids And Superspreaders Are Driving COVID-19 Cases In India, Huge Study Finds
NPR – What’s been unclear is how much kids contribute to spreading COVID-19 to the rest of the community. “What we found in our study is that children were actually quite important,” says Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of CDDEP, while elaborating on the role that children have in COVID-19 disease transmission.
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September 30, 2020Huge Study of Coronavirus Cases in India Offers Some Surprises to Scientists
The New York Times – “An overwhelming majority of coronavirus cases globally have occurred in resource-poor countries. It still surprises me that it took until this point for a lot of data to come out of a low- or middle-income country about the epidemiology of Covid”, Dr. Joseph Lewnard, Epidemiologist at University of California, Berkeley, […]
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September 30, 2020Largest study of COVID-19 transmission highlights essential role of super-spreaders
Los Angeles Times – “Super-spreading events are the rule rather than the exception”, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of CDDEP discussed one of the major findings of the CDDEP led and largest contact tracing study to date, investigating COVID-19 epidemiology in two Indian states.
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September 30, 2020Largest contact tracing study to date published in Science finds that children are active transmitters of COVID-19
A study led by CDDEP, and a collaboration between a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Princeton, and the Government of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, investigated disease transmission patterns in 575,071 individuals exposed to 84,965 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The study, based on data collected […]
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July 28, 2020Increasing global consumption of Watch antibiotics reflects stewardship challenges
Researchers at CDDEP, Johns Hopkins University, St. George’s University of London, and Washington University School of Medicine analyzed global trends of antibiotic consumption in each WHO AWaRe category over 15 years.
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