- April 9, 2020Coronavirus: India needs to proactively identify hotspots to stop millions from getting infected, says director of CDDEP.
CNBC TV 18– April 9, 2020. Professor Laxminarayan had earlier warned of a massive outbreak in India and raised red flags suggesting that India should prepare for a tsunami of cases. Reviewing his position on India’s situation he said, “Modelling is used for two purposes, it is used to project what will happen in the absence of […]
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- April 8, 2020Rational Expectations: Vital to get India’s health on track.
Financial Express– April 8, 2020. As Dr Laxminarayanof CDDEP showed, even in a scenario where 1% of Indians got infected, with a much smaller share of those needing hospitalization, and India were to get rid of all other patients, the country still simply doesn’t have the hospital beds to take care of them.
Read moreRead more Read More - April 7, 2020‘Tip of the iceberg’: Racing the clock to contain coronavirus in the world’s slums.
Thomson Reuters Foundation News– April 7, 2020. Poor living conditions, malnutrition and weakened immune systems make slum dwellers prone to contracting more severe forms of the virus, said diseases expert Ramanan Laxminarayan. “They are also less likely to be able to access treatment,” said Laxminarayan, director of the Washington D.C.-based Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 6, 2020Coronavirus pandemic: ‘Pool testing’ for COVID-19 may benefit India as US study proves test feasibility, efficacy.
Money Control– April 6, 2020. At a time when countries like India are struggling to scale up testing, researchers at Texas A&M University, Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) and Princeton University have assessed the feasibility of pooled real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing to vastly increase testing for COVID-19.
Read moreRead more Read More - April 6, 2020Rapid antibody testing for hotspots first, says ICMR.
The Hindu– April 6, 2020. “Here, we found that the use of a pooled testing strategy could reduce the time, cost, and resources required whilst identifying infected people in a population and estimating the infection rate. This would allow us to identify community clusters for targeted public health interventions,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, study author and CDDEP […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 6, 2020To curb further Covid 19 spread, move to pooled tests.
Financial Express– April 6, 2020. By Ramanan Laxminarayan and Nachiket Mor. As Covid 19 spreads more broadly into the community, it is time for India’s strategy to move from one of individual testing, containment, and isolation, to a community approach.
Read moreRead more Read More - April 6, 2020India not out of woods; needs to exponentially ramp up tests: Experts on COVID-19 pandemic.
The Economic Times;Live Mint; Financial Express; Business Insider; Outlook India; Business Standard;News 18; The Times of India;Eastern Mirror; Kashmir Images; Tribune India; Yahoo News; Devdiscourse; Metrovaartha; Rediff.com; One India; Overseas Updates; Trend Times; News 8 Plus– April 6, 2020. Experts said India is still not out of the woods and large-scale testing alone can make the overall picture clear. “There is a need to scale up testing exponentially if we […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 5, 2020Coronavirus: Faced with an unprecedented challenge, how is India faring?
The Economic Times– April 5, 2020. “The lockdown was timely. Any delay could have resulted in a spike of cases. Without doubt, the lockdown has been costly in terms of increasing hunger and rural distress but the benefits are significant in terms of a smaller projected epidemic peak,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan.
Read moreRead more Read More - April 5, 2020Pooled COVID-19 tests could help scale up testing and identify & contain disease hotspots
Researchers at Texas A&M University, CDDEP, and Princeton assessed the feasibility of pooled RT-PCR testing to vastly increase testing for Covid-19.
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