COVID-19 vaccine - Catabatic

Super-spreading, mobility and crowding

Nov 12, 2020 5 min read

I still see quite a few journalists in India refer to "super-spreaders" vis-à-vis the novel coronavirus – implying that some individuals might be to blame for ‘seeding’ lots of new infection…

Vaccines for votes

Oct 31, 2020 3 min read

Op-eds Bharatiya Janata Party Bihar polls COVID-19 vaccine Election Commission ethics Joe Biden Nitish Kumar NYAY scheme polio vaccine

A week or so ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar released its poll manifesto, the first point on which was that should the party win, it would make a COVID-19 vaccine cleared by the ICMR availabl…

Pandemic: A world-building exercise

Sep 19, 2020 2 min read

Op-eds 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

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 pric…