- April 20, 2020India under lockdown: What costs and benefits?
France 24– April 20, 2020. François Picard speaks with Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, and health journalist Vidya Krishnan, author of the upcoming book “Phantom Plague: The Untold Story of How Tuberculosis Shaped our History”.
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- April 16, 2020ICMR wants two COVID-19 testing labs in each city.
Bangalore Mirror– April 16, 2020. Researchers at Texas A&M University, Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), and Princeton University have assessed the feasibility of pooled RT PCR testing to vastly increase testing for covid-19.
Read moreRead more Read More - April 15, 2020India to stay locked down till May 3.
Hindustan Times– April 15, 2020. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, and a senior research scholar at Princeton University, said that the government had clearly prioritised health. “This additional lockdown will push the epidemic curve out quite far. Our options in terms of treatment options may be quite different then. Our […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 14, 2020Controlling COVID-19: To slay the Coronavirus-Goliath.
Financial Express– April 14, 2020. CDDEP-Princeton-Johns Hopkins researchers estimate a mammoth hospitalisation problem from COVID-19 in India. Pushing out the peak,i.e. delaying its occurrence through lockdowns, seems the only workable strategy till a vaccine or cure appears.
Read moreRead more Read More - April 14, 2020COVID-19 hospitalisation demand in India could reach 18 lakh: CDDEP.
Financial Express– April 14, 2020. Against the availability of just over 7 lakh beds at government hospital facilities in India, the peak COVID-19 hospitalisation demand in the country could be as high as 18.7 lakh in a hard/moderate lockdown scenario, researchers associated with the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), Johns Hopkins University […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 14, 2020Has India’s ‘airpocalypse’ put the poor more at risk from coronavirus?
Thomson Reuters Foundation– April 14, 2020. Respiratory problems can also be made worse by “co-morbidities” – or existing medical conditions – like hypertension and diabetes, said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Washington D.C.-based Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy. “The poor are more likely to have these co-morbidities and are exposed to higher levels of air pollution […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 14, 2020Lockdown ‘slowed spread’.
The Telegraph– April 14, 2020. The work by the other research group at the US-based Centre for Disease Dynamics Economics and Policyhas suggested that a hard lockdown — reducing transmission by 44 per cent — would have pushed the peak of the infections in India from end-May (around May 27) to mid-June (around June 17).
Read moreRead more Read More - April 14, 2020Densely Populated UP and Bihar Have Recorded Just About 6% of India’s Covid-19 Cases but Some Experts are Sceptical.
News 18– April 14, 2020. According to experts, the low number of coronavirus cases in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh is specious. The situation in the two states is unclear “probably due to low levels of testing and also a weak health system. States with the strongest health systems are more likely to detect cases quickly,” […]
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