- November 24, 2020CDDEP’s Director, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, named a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science
CDDEP’s Director, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, has been named a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions to the field of Economic Epidemiology, with particular reference to the spread and control of Antimicrobial Resistance.
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- November 20, 2020New Delhi pollution leading to more COVID-19-related deaths
Al Jazeera English — There are warnings high pollution in India’s capital is leading to more coronavirus-related deaths. Millions of residents in New Delhi have not had a day of clean air in more than two months. And the region is also recording its highest number of COVID-19 infections since the onset of the pandemic. […]
Read moreRead more Read More - November 7, 2020A minority of people with covid-19 account for the bulk of transmission
The Economist – “Our data journalists dig into statistics that show how the coronavirus is passed on by a few super-spreaders— 10% of people cause 60% of infections.”
Read moreRead more Read More - November 1, 2020What super-spreading events teach us about protecting ourselves from COVID-19.
TIME – Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan discusses the implications of the study’s findings in an interview with TIME.
Read moreRead more Read More - October 24, 2020Thinking Forward – Public Health.
Princeton University — In one of the monthly series talks from Princeton University, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan discusses the major public health efforts in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu provinces in India, which enabled the tracing of 85,000 COVID-19 index cases and their 757,000 contacts, in one of the largest contact- tracing studies to date. The talk […]
Read moreRead more Read More - October 19, 2020Are children COVID-19 super-spreaders?
Arirang Issue — We connect to Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, Director, The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy to learn about children and their susceptibility to COVID-19 as well as their potential to infect those around them.
Read moreRead more Read More - 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.
Read moreRead more Read More - 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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - 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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