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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Topic: Vaccine

How we’ve lost time in the race for a Covid-19 cure

Despite much hype around several existing drugs, we still haven’t found a proven, evidence-based treatment for Covid-19.

How coronavirus vaccines can reach the market faster with the right incentives

Vaccine makers need to be encouraged to develop coronavirus vaccines and get them widely distributed as soon as possible. And it has to be worth their while.

Bill Gates’s coronavirus vaccine could be ready in 12 months

Bill Gates is funding production of the 7 most promising ideas for a vaccine but production will probably not start in September.

Total eradication of novel coronavirus almost impossible. But this is what vaccine can do

Scientists say about 50-70% of the population needs to be resistant for the virus to stop spreading and slowly die out.

Made-in-India Covid-19 vaccine could be ready in a year, says Biocon’s Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

In an interview to ThePrint, Biocon co-founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw says India is ahead of other countries in flattening the Covid-19 curve.

Djokovic right to be anti-vaxxer. Federer or Kohli didn’t just wake up one day as champions

An athlete's career isn't just all performance. One wrong move can end a career. Novak Djokovic is well within his right to oppose mandatory Covid-19 vaccine intake.

China plans to give medics Covid-19 vaccines by year-end to protect them: Health officials

An adenovirus Covid-19 vector vaccine, developed by Institute of Military Medicine in China, is the first in the world that has entered second phase of clinical trial.

These are the 4 pieces of good news on coronavirus this week

Long before Covid-19, scientists at University of North Carolina & Gilead began developing Remdesivir in anticipation of a new coronavirus epidemic.

China tests thousands to calculate true spread of Covid-19 amid accusations of under-reporting

China's serological survey involves collecting blood samples from people to see if they have antibodies to fight Covid-19, a sign they’ve been infected.

My virologist dad says coronavirus vaccines won’t be ready for distribution till 2021

By compressing decades of virology R&D, we can say that SARS-CoV2 vaccine may not be ready before 12-18 months. And even then, we must be lucky every step of way.

On Camera

Social media has made news more graphic. Torture by Russian military is latest example

Before social media, depiction of violence on news was the exception—graphic visuals were either not shown on TV or in newspapers or the images were blurred. This is no longer the case.

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.