- November 5, 2021Third Covid-19 wave fears for India as vaccination drive stalls
The Telegraph — November 5, 2021. “Vaccinations are driven by many things. I expect a lot of the 103 million people that missed appointments were driven by fear to get their first dose because a lot of Indians were dying at the time, it was during the second wave.” Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center […]
Read moreRead more Read More - October 23, 2021Drug-resistant superbug thriving in hospitals hit hard by COVID-19
National Geographic — October 23, 2021. “Researchers are concerned about the role climate change will play in the spread of fungal infections,” Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, D.C.
Read moreRead more Read More - October 20, 2021Logistical nightmare for Indians to claim Covid-19 compensation
CNN — October 20, 2021. “Compensation for COVID victims is helpful to families that have suffered but the process needs to take into account the fact that a vast majority of COVID patients were not tested,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan in an interview with CNN in response to a recently approved $300 million plan to compensate […]
Read moreRead more Read More - August 14, 2021India’s chronic disease burden helped fuel Covid’s brutal waves
LiveMint — August 14, 2021. “Let’s just say India had half the diabetes and hypertension that we have, we probably would have seen a far smaller impact of the second wave.” Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy.
Read moreRead more Read More - August 14, 2021Kids as likely as adults to have asymptomatic Covid
Hindustan Times — August 14, 2021. “I don’t think we have had evidence that the elderly with co-morbidities face greater risk for symptomatic infection. This indicates that our limited vaccines should be targeted towards the highest risk age groups rather than at those who are at low risk even of infection.” Ramanan Laxminarayan discusses a […]
Read moreRead more Read More - August 9, 2021Oxygen for India: Building a more resilient health system
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Read moreRead more Read More - August 6, 2021Delta threatens rural regions that dodged earlier COVID waves
Nature — August 6, 2021. “India has definitely had a significant problem with COVID-19 mortality reporting, which is now widely recognized, and a lot of those deaths are in rural India.” Ramanan Laxminarayan, an epidemiologist at Princeton University.
Read moreRead more Read More - June 27, 2021As Maharashtra gears up to fight Delta Plus, experts say ‘let’s focus on routine Covid-19 tasks’
Mid-Day — June 27, 2021. “Since COVID-19 is an RNA virus, its natural property is to mutate and change with time. So, the concern here is not as much about it mutating rapidly, but whether the mutation is making the virus more virulent or dangerous.” CDDEP’s Giridara Gopal Parameswaran.
Read moreRead more Read More - June 4, 2021Why India’s Oxygen Shortage Is a Cautionary Tale for the World
Global Atlanta – “The initial goal was to distribute 40,000 reusable cylinders and 20,000 concentrators in 20 rural and urban centers of India, but beyond that, the OxygenForIndia movement hopes to ensure that such preventable deaths become a thing of the past even in normal times and spur a long-term fight to secure supplies in […]
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