- 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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - May 18, 2021How India is scrambling to secure medical oxygen and save lives
National Geographic — May 18, 2021. “Every part of the healthcare system was caught unaware,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan, an epidemiologist and director of the Washington DC-based Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, who is now based in New Delhi. “India has a persistent medical oxygen problem.”
Read moreRead more Read More - May 13, 2021India’s Crisis Marks a New Phase in the Pandemic
The New Yorker – “We want to assure people they will have oxygen at home, so that hospital capacity is freed up for the sickest patients.” Dr. Laxminarayan, Founder of OxygenForIndia and CDDEP.
Read moreRead more Read More - May 13, 2021India’s Crisis Marks a New Phase in the Pandemic
The New Yorker — May 13, 2021. “You need public-health enforcement when the pandemic is invisible. Now fear is the dominant force changing people’s behavior,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan, an epidemiologist and economist at Princeton.
Read moreRead more Read More - May 11, 2021India’s Critical Oxygen Need
CBS – “It is the will to save someone’s life that keeps us going, even though we are all battling personal tragedies around us” by Dr. Laxminarayan
Read moreRead more Read More - May 7, 2021India’s Oxygen Crisis and why COVID-19 variants are troubling
Channel News Asia – “You could be sitting in one place and there could be an oxygen plant 50 yards from you, but if there’s no way for you to get oxygen, then you’re out of luck. We’re trying to solve that last mile connectivity problem”, by Dr. Laxminarayan
Read moreRead more Read More - May 4, 2021How to help India during its COVID surge — 12 places you can donate
PBS NewsHour – OxygenForIndia, organized by the international Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, is setting up help desks at various hospitals to ensure that people get access to oxygen cylinders and concentrators for free.
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