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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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).

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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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Financial Express– April 13, 2020. The latest numbers from CDDEP are looking at 73 crore Indians getting infected by September and over one crore needing hospitalization; so it is difficult to understand how people believe livelihood won’t be affected if lives are not saved.

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Hindustan Times– April 13, 2020. By Ramanan Laxminarayan. A more feasible option is to achieve herd immunity- a concept which predicts that all of India would be protected as long as at least 65% of the population has experienced the infection, even without symptoms or in its mildest form.

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The Print– April 12, 2020. A study by researchers at the Texas A&M University, Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) and Princeton University in the US had assessed the feasibility of pooled real-time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing. The RT-PCR test is used to determine whether an individual has contracted Covid-19.

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