Large Contact Tracing Study In India Shows People Of All Ages Can Be Infected With And Transmit COVID-19
The first ever large scale study using contact tracing data from two states in India provides critical new information about the virus that causes Covid-19 and how it spreads. Using data from over 85,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases and their 575,071 contacts, the study found …
The COVID Commentaries: A Chronicle of a Plague —Volume II
In early 2020, rumors of a new pneumonia-like illness coming from Wuhan, China were just beginning to emerge. COVID-19 has gone on to infect at least thirty five million people worldwide and has killed more than one million. The COVID Commentaries is …
The COVID Commentaries: A Chronicle of a Plague —Volume I
In early 2020, rumors of a new pneumonia-like illness coming from Wuhan, China were just beginning to emerge. COVID-19 has gone on to infect at least thirty five million people worldwide and has killed more than one million. After a lifetime spent …
India Approves Antigen Test To Speed Detection And Management Of SARS-CoV-2 Infections
On July 23, India approved a rapid antigen test to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections. The product is called the Pathocatch COVID-19 Antigen Rapid testing kit, developed and manufactured in India by Mylab Discovery Solutions. The test will be used as part of an integrated program to …
The Other Shoe Drops: Gilead’s Outrageous Pricing Of Remdesivir
Gilead says it will charge governments $2,340 and private insurers $3,120 for a 5-day course of remdesivir, a treatment for Covid-19 patients. This is an outrageous price for a drug that has demonstrated little to no ability to save lives or lower …
Introduction to the COVID – 19: Learning Diary from India
In December 2019, an acute respiratory viral infection was first identified in Wuhan city in China. Ever since then the disease has infected over 4.9 million people, killed over 320,000, and brought life to a standstill in several countries.[1] It has forced …
India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity Must Grow by a Factor of 10: Here’s How that Can Happen
India’s testing capacity for Covid-19 is extremely insufficient to withstand the size of the outbreak. Many experts believe that a tenfold increase in the country’s testing rate is necessary to keep positivity rates below 10 percent, as recommended by the World Health …
Reducing The Risk Of In Flight COVID-19 Transmission
All of us fly. Last year, more than 1.5 billion people took to the air. Flying both short and long distances has become a way of life not just for the privileged, but for the many. We always knew air travel was …
Bracing Ourselves for an Explosion of Cases in India — Reflections on Covid
India and its 1.3 billion residents are on a three week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. The move was in response to troubling new predictions that suggested that without aggressive actions up to 500 million Indians could be infected and …
Use of Standardized Patients for Healthcare Quality Research in Low and Middle Income Countries
This article, recently published by BMJ Global Health, notes that the use of standardized patients is becoming increasingly common as a means to measure the quality of care. The standardized patient methodology is regarded as a gold standard for quality of care …