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I'm trying something new. Every night I'm doing a five minute mini podcast on one question around the novel coronavirus in India. Yesterday's was on how long lockdowns might need to be. You can listen to The Moving Curve - Episode 1 here:
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Episode 2 of The Moving Curve (my experiment with a 5-minute daily podcast on the novel coronavirus in India) considers how strict a lockdown needs to be to be effective
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Epsiode 3 of The Moving Curve (my experiment with a 5-minute nightly podcast on the novel coronavirus in India) asks the question: can we trust India's numbers? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
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Episode 4 of The Moving Curve asks the question: why is India testing such few people for the novel coronavirus? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
Episode 5 considers the question: is the virus really potent enough to justify this lockdown? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
Episode 6 asks the question: what is community transmission and does it really matter so much whether we are at "stage 3" or not? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
Episode 7 asks the question: should we all be wearing masks? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
Episode 8 asks the question: when there's no known cure, how are hospitals treating COVID-19 patients? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
Episode 9 asks the question: what is the Indian government not telling us about the epidemic? soundcloud.com/rukmini-s/the-…
Episode 10 asks the question: what do we do about super-spreaders? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
Episode 11 ponders the question: will testing millions of people make life after the lockdown safe again? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
Episode 12 asks the question: just how flat does that flattened curve need to get before we can go about our normal lives again?
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Episode 13 asks the question: what will life after the lockdown look like? medium.com/@rukminiwrites…
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For @livemint I looked at the data on the healthcare-seeking behaviour of Indians to understand what we need to overcome in the fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus. Thread:
The poorest and most marginalised are most likely to report ill-health especially - and this is worrying in the current context - coughs and fevers
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Thread: For @ThePrintIndia I looked at the current rate of growth of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India and estimates by others. In most scenarios it is looking like India will hit 1 mn *confirmed* cases in May - and the fatality rate is broadly over 3% theprint.in/opinion/curren…
Here's a simple extension of the 5-6 day doubling rate, and here is a detailed projection by a team of bio-statisticians.
The accuracy of health infrastructure data is poor; broadly some time in May we will run out of hospital beds. States with poor capacity will be hit harder and faster. Projections about ICU beds and ventilators are even muddier - but it's safe to say the crisis is coming fast
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Should we be confident of the official statistics on coronavirus cases and deaths in India? Unfortunately - no. Thread:
Just 77% of deaths in India are registered, and just 22% of these were medically certified. That's....shockingly few.
Doctors are more likely to get the cause of death wrong than right and this was truly shocking to me. (Many similar studies)
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