The growth rate of weekly average of the number of positive cases, Covid diagnosed/suspected deaths and hospital admissions need to…
Patents restrict access to essential technologies and constrict the ability of many countries to provide early and affordable services needed…
We must not let ourselves get trapped in a see-saw of lockdowns and laxity. Need to ensure testing, tracing and…
It is necessary to report the 95% confidence intervals around both the overall vaccine trial result and for the values…
Union Budget 2021 India: Laboratory capacity will be expanded and One Health surveillance connectivity will be established across wildlife, veterinary…
Union Budget 2021 Expectations for health sector: Increased spending on primary care will reflect the twin priorities of an effective…
‘Science by press release’ may be good for value of developers’ stocks, but regulatory approvals & public-health use require rigorously…
The purpose of scientific research in public health is to provide evidence-informed, context-relevant, resource optimising, culturally compatible and equity promoting…
Depending on big hospitals to provide most of Post-COvid care is setting ourselves up for failure. Community-based facilities, in or…
The Year of the Rat is now seeing a rise in rapid antigen testing (RAT) for Covid-19.
We have to maintain vigilance against the first bout of Covid-19 infection and draw assurance from the fact that our…
Commercial interests too play a very strong role since there is much money to be made for the industry, though…
The true prevalence rates are most likely to be lower than the rates reported, because of the inflation of false…
With a multiplicity of tests, a problem will arise with the reporting and interpretation of total testing numbers.
We need a slew of public health measures to contain Covid-19 and keep the total deaths in our population low…
India should move ahead with the undeterred resolve of adopting context-defined and regionally-differentiated strategies, undistracted by critics
However, these measures tell us how well a test behaves in a group of persons, not particularly about the individual…
Talking about doubling-time between given periods without taking into account whether the underlying testing/case identification factors are comparable or not,…
