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Pandemic: A world-building exercise
First, there was light news of a vaccine against COVID-19 nearing the end of its phase 3 clinical trials with very promising results, accompanied with breezy speculations (often tied to the stock prices of a certain drug-maker) about how it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-vaxxer, clinical trials, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Donald Trump, epidemiological modelling, epidemiology, healthcare privatisation, migrant workers, phase 3 clinical trials, Politically Math, private healthcare
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Dehumanising language during an outbreak
It appears the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has begun local transmission in India, i.e. infecting more people within the country instead of each new patient having recently travelled to an already affected country. The advent of local transmission is an important event … Continue reading
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Tagged Amit Shah, Bharatiya Janata Party, COVID-19, dehumanisation, Eman Ahmed, epidemic, Harsh Vardhan, infection, infectious diseases, local transmission, private healthcare, public healthcare system, Saifee Hospital, SARS-CoV-2, science communication, science journalism, The Guardian, Washington Post, Wuhan coronavirus
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Curious Bends – nuclear Himalayas, tiny Indians, renewables victory and more
1. 50 years ago a bomb’s worth of plutonium was lost on India’s second highest mountain. The mystery remains unanswered “In October 1965, the US’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) joined hands in a clandestine mission to install … Continue reading
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Tagged capacity building, Ghana, healthcare subsidy, Nanda Devi plutonium mystery, population demographics, power generation, private healthcare, renewable energy, stunting, suicide, water supply
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