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This time, We need to win this War !
Today is World Mosquito Day. Some 124 years ago in year 1897, Dr Ronald Ross established that female anopheles mosquitoes spread malaria. This was probably the single most important discovery in public health, apart from Germ Theory & the establishment of the vaccination concept. This discovery paved way for effectively targeting malaria through managing mosquitoes…
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COVID, Malaria and Need for strengthening Public Health in India
Today is World Malaria Day. Normally, I would have posted something on Malaria. But today I think it important that we focus on fighting against COVID with all our might for the next few weeks to control situation. Lets try to follow all precautions and helps others whereever we can. Unfortunately, our public health infrastructure…
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Serendipity or Zemblanity
Originally Published on 28 November 2020 Serendipity means occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. AstraZeneca says Serendipity’ boosted Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine’s efficacy. As trials showed 70% efficacy, however from another set of trials efficacy was 90%, that happened when the participants were administered as a half dose followed by…
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Story of Malaria must end…
Originally Published 25 April 2020 Today as we commemorate World malaria day amidst the global COVID19 outbreak, it’s important to take a break and reflect about “Malaria” a very long-standing scourge of mankind. Its very important that the Vigor in the battle against malaria must not reduce by any chance in the present scenario Humanity…
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Infodemic at the time of PandemiC
Originally Published on 12 April 2020 Image Courtesy marketingland.com During this lockdown, we are being bombarded with a lot more information. We are consuming a lot of information during this time than probably we had done it for a long time. People are sitting at home and they are consuming the information from multiple sources…
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COVID-19 and “New World”
This is my first blog for my website www.viveknotes.com originally posted on 4th April 2020 COVID-19 is an unfortunate event of our time and affected everyone. Rarely an event or situation impacts so many people together. COVID-19 is proving to be a black swan event with millions of cases & more than 50K deaths across 200…