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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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Topic: Influenza

The coronavirus crisis is a virtual replay of the past

Our current predicament may be less unique than we tend to believe, and the 1889 pandemic may be able to help us predict our future.

Covid-19 is much, much deadlier than the flu, bro

Numbers show the fatality risk from Covid-19 is much higher than that of influenza for every age group above 20.

Severity, lethality, defence: How new coronavirus stacks up against seasonal influenza

First reports of Covid-19 symptoms appeared on 8 December, in Wuhan. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on 11 March. And it’s not like common flu.

China’s love for wildlife meat to its authoritarianism — how coronavirus got out of hand

In Episode 413 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains China's obsession with exotic meats and how its authoritarian system led COVID-19 grow into a pandemic.

102 yrs before COVID-19, India braved The Bombay Fever pandemic that killed over 10 mn

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 had claimed somewhere between 50 and 100 million lives worldwide, with India accounting for almost a fifth of the global death toll.

Experts fear coronavirus toll could match 1957 influenza pandemic that killed a million

Projections by infectious disease experts say Covid-19 may shape up on the same scale as the Asian flu pandemic of 1957 but is unlikely to match the 1918 Spanish flu.

New flu shot far more powerful than the 1940s breakthrough in preventing flu-like illnesses

Flucelvax, produced by Melbourne-based CSL’s Seqirus unit, is 36.2 % more effective than conventional shots in preventing flu-like illness that killed almost 200 American children last winter.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.