COVID and post COVID

Despite a strong response at the outset of the pandemic, as of Sept 22, India has the world's fastest growing outbreak of COVID-19 in absolute numbers according to WHO, reporting more than 5·...

The target would be to protect 70% of the population , at least 50% immediately . The prediction of 7 million by October was well challenged in India As we stand on 2nd Oct. less than 6...

Attached friends may be useful as it suggests steam inhalation can play an important role in minimising Covid

The attached picture depicts what had happened in Visakapatnam on Sunday . * The aspiring and tense students aspiring to attend the tests would never ever would have known the number comming ...

Some global experts are suggesting that if Covid positive rates in your district or city is less than 5% schools can be opened. This cannot be applied in India because in many many casea...

Initial priorities were to Prevent Infection with norms, equipment and adequate health care workers. And need to treat the patients with increased bed capacity to match the prevalence, along with ...

Latest research (attached) reveals that viable SARS-CoV-2 can be present in aerosols generated by a COVID-19 patient in a hospital room in the absence of an aerosol-generating procedure, and can th...

Per Govt India produces over 6900 metric tonnes oxygen. Today 6% patients were on oxygen. These patients and other health needs together means there is a requirement of 2800 metric tonnes everyday...

Though the total figure has crossed the 5 Lakh mark ,the data from the recovery rate is 89% . The daily Recovery is consistently more than the daily infected . Death rate has also considerably scal...

Good writeup by Arnaud Fauntanet Herd immunity is a key concept for epidemic control. It states that only a proportion of a population needs to be immune (through overcoming natural infe...