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There's at least one headline every day that's a head scratcher and today it is "Third wave of pandemic to attack children more." I don't know how any sensible person

I have been talking about treatments for COVID-19 for nearly 15 months based on published data in the gold standard randomized clinical trials. What I will say here isn't new;

Experts were quick to declare the pandemic over, people were keen to move on. All the while other countries were registering millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deathsHow

Every media outlet is doing a best-of-list of books of 2020. It's a shame that few of them include even a SINGLE popular-science book (and NY Times has only one

What is one book that everyone read and loved which you found unreadable? I'll start. For me it is "Sapiens". ("Homo Deus" was even worse. Harari does not believe in

So much of the early history of microbiology and epidemiology is tied to India- not just Ross and malaria or Brahmachari and the treatment for leishmaniasis but the first clinical

Don't assume other people are doing well, just because they are putting up a brave face for you, or posting normal, cheery things on social media. They may be absolutely

A lot of great research on immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and early information on vaccines out in May, but I haven't found a single up-to-date story which puts it all in

Immunology is one of the hardest and most complicated processes to understand. 27 people have won Nobel Prizes for explaining parts of it. I'm going to hazard explaining how pandemic

Now, I don't know when a COVID-19 vaccine will come out or ultimately if there will be one (a lot of it depends on the biology of the virus and

Depending on which numbers you look at (infections or deaths), these lag 2-3 weeks, and up to 4 weeks. It takes time for these measures to take effect. April was

Pathogens loom large in the life of anyone who has spent time in the developing world. Measures are taken every day to avoid bad water and vectors. I woke up