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COVID-19

biopolitics

Homo medicatis

With Covishield in my body, I feel like there is a capillary
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antimicrobial resistance

COVID-19, AMR and India

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that India is today the site
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2020

Good luck with your Maggi

You know when you’re cooking a packet of Maggi noodles in
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basic amenities

Super-spreading, mobility and crowding

I still see quite a few journalists in India refer to “super-spreaders”
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anti-masker

Trump, science denial and violence

For a few days last week, before the mail-in votes had been
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alcohol

Thermal gun, sanitiser and volatility

Most of the shops I visit to purchase my supplies dispense an
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anti-vaxxer

Pandemic: A world-building exercise

First, there was light news of a vaccine against COVID-19 nearing the
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azithromycin

Spray and pray – the COVID-19 version

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the head of Biocon, a company headquartered in Bengaluru
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Bharat Biotech

India's missing research papers

If you’re looking for a quantification (although you shouldn’t) of
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Biocon

The matter of a journal's reputation

Apparently (and surprisingly) The Telegraph didn’t allow Dinesh Thakur to respond
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COVID-19

Super-spreads exist, but do super-spreaders?

What does the term ‘super-spreader’ mean? According to an article in the
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COVID-19

A non-self-correcting science

While I’m all for a bit of triumphalism when some component
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