Tag Archives: World Health Organization
Is Covaxin’s WHO approval guaranteed?
I suspect after reading this PTI report that the WHO is practically helping Bharat Biotech put together a better application to have its COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, get the body’s approval for international use, instead of simply considering what Bharat Biotech … Continue reading
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Tagged Balram Bhargava, Bharat Biotech, clinical trials, COVAX, Covaxin, Drug Controller General of India, Indian Council of Medical Research, World Health Organization
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The WHA coronavirus resolution is not great for science
On May 19, member states of the WHO moved a vote in the World Health Assembly (WHA), asking for an independent investigation into the sources of the novel coronavirus. Their exact demands were spelled out in a draft resolution that … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm, Science
Tagged coronavirus lab origin hypothesis, COVID-19, Donald Trump, evolutionary biology, furin, Harsh Vardhan, Nitin Gadkari, novel coronavirus, principle of correspondence, SARS-CoV-2, sufficient cause, sufficient condition, WHO, World Health Assembly, World Health Organization, zoonotic spillover
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On India’s path to community transmission
There’s a virus out there among many, many viruses that’s caught the world’s attention. This virus came into existence somewhere else, it doesn’t matter where, and developed a mutation at some point that allowed it to do what it needs … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernoulli distribution, binomial distribution, community transmission, coronavirus, COVID-19, demonetisation, epidemiology, healthcare expenditure, Homo sapiens, Indian Council of Medical Research, infectious diseases, local transmission, novel coronavirus, pandemic, World Health Organization
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Tuberculosis’s invisible millions – in cases and money
Tuberculosis (TB) has killed more than a billion people in the last 200 years. That’s more than any other infectious disease in that period. And, what’s worse is that, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), less than half the cases worldwide are … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, healthcare expenditure, Millennium Development Goals, multidrug-resistant TB, National Health Policy, Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Day, World Health Organization
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