Tag Archives: COVID-19 vaccines
About vaccines for children and Covaxin…
I don’t understand his penchant for late-night announcements, much less one at 10 pm on Christmas night, but Prime Minister Narendra has just said the government will roll out vaccines for young adults aged 15-18 years from January 3, 2022 … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged Bharat Biotech, Covaxin, COVID-19 vaccines, paediatric vaccination, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, vaccine triumphalism, ZyCoV-D, Zydus Cadila
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Panicking about omicron
The new omicron variant of the novel coronavirus has got everyone alarmed – which is darkly ironic. This variant has reportedly racked up more mutations than previous variants of concern, including the delta, with virologists and epidemiologists from South Africa … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines, delta variant, omicron variant, virus transmissibility
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Being apolitical doesn’t mean politics doesn’t exist
A few years ago, we had a writer who would constantly pitch articles to us about how the Indian government should be doing X, Y or Z in the fight against this or that disease. Their submissions grew quickly tiresome, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines, epidemics, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh
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Exporting risk
I’m torn between admitting that our cynicism about scientists’ solutions for the pandemic is warranted and the palliative effects of reading this Reuters report about seemingly nothing more than the benevolence of richer nations not wasting their vaccine doses: Apart … Continue reading
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Tagged AZD1222, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines, Covishield, vaccine apartheid, vaccine nationalism
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COVID-19, due process and an SNR problem
At a press conference streamed live on March 18, the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that the body – which serves as the European Union’s drug and vaccine regulator – had concluded that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was not … Continue reading
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Tagged adverse events following immunization, AstraZeneca, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines, Covishield, European Medicines Agency, mRNA vaccines, Omelas, public health, risk communication, signal-to-noise ratio, T Jacob John, Ursula Le Guin
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What the DNA Bill needs
The following article has been published in The Wire, but since it began as a blog post and because I haven’t published anything else in a while, I’m using it here as well. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on S&T, Forests … Continue reading
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Tagged Covaxin, COVID-19 vaccines, Covishield, crime scene investigation, DNA Bill, forensic science, jagatguru complex, Jairam Ramesh, mitochondrial DNA, nuclear DNA, scientific evidence, two-finger test
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