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Tag: novel coronavirus

On the lab-leak hypothesis

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One problem with the debate over the novel coronavirus’s “lab leak” origin hypothesis is a problem I’m starting […]

June 5, 2021 Analysis, Scicomm, Science

COVID-19, AMR and India

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Maybe it’s not a coincidence that India is today the site of the world’s largest COVID-19 outbreak and […]

April 22, 2021 Science

The constructionist hypothesis and expertise during the pandemic

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Now that COVID-19 cases are rising again in the country, the trash talk against journalists has been rising […]

April 22, 2021 Op-eds, Scicomm

Super-spreading, mobility and crowding

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I still see quite a few journalists in India refer to “super-spreaders” vis-à-vis the novel coronavirus – implying […]

November 12, 2020 Analysis, Science

Powerful microscopy technique brings proteins into focus

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as a technology has become more important because the field that it revolutionised – structural […]

October 28, 2020 Scicomm

Spray and pray – the COVID-19 version

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the head of Biocon, a company headquartered in Bengaluru and which has repurposed a drug […]

September 1, 2020 Science

India’s missing research papers

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If you’re looking for a quantification (although you shouldn’t) of the extent to which science is being conducted […]

August 9, 2020 Science

Super-spreads exist, but do super-spreaders?

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What does the term ‘super-spreader’ mean? According to an article in the MIT Tech Review on June 15, “The word […]

July 21, 2020 Analysis, Scicomm

Questions we should be asking more often

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1. Okay, but where’s the money coming from? In a lecture at the Asian College of Journalism, where […]

July 13, 2020 Analysis

The number of deaths averted

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What are epidemiological models for? You can use models to inform policy and other decision-making. But you can’t […]

June 10, 2020 Analysis, Science

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