- 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, […]
Read moreRead more Read More - 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.
Read moreRead more Read More - 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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - 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.
Read moreRead more Read More - June 10, 2020Flu vaccine coverage linked to reduced antibiotic prescribing
Researchers at CDDEP, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine assessed the impact of influenza vaccination coverage on state-level antibiotic prescribing rates in the United States between 2010 and 2017.
Read moreRead more Read More - April 24, 2020Time will reveal the value of India’s lockdown.
Hindustan Times– April 24, 2020. By Ramanan Laxminarayan. Viruses spread rather unpredictably- and the scenario we were modeling was rather straightforward, yet terrifying- the spread of a new coronavirus through a completely susceptible population.
Read moreRead more Read More - April 23, 2020By September, India could have 111 crore SARS-CoV-2 cases: CDDEP.
The Hindu Business Line– April 23, 2020. *A statement from CDDEP was issued regarding the following publication and the corrections have been initiated. The US-based Centre for Disease, Dynamics and Economic Policy (CDDEP), has in its report dated April 20 said India’s total SARS-COV-2 infections up to September could be as high as 111 crore, […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 22, 2020Corona outbreak: Here is how herd immunity could work for poor countries.
The Print– April 22, 2020. “We’re dealing with a trade-off against starvation, hunger, all this other stuff,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, the director of the CDDEP and a Princeton researcher. By allowing the coronavirus to spread in a controlled way, “undoubtedly there will be deaths, but it will be much smaller this way, and it opens us up for […]
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