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Jul 1, 2021 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
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As India witnessed a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 cases, state and central governments scrambled to find appropriate responses to handle this health crisis. Many state governments have employed lockdowns and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) 1/n
Interventions initially adopted by states ranged from complete lockdown to no restrictions, with many states imposing combinations of partial lockdowns and night curfews. Using information from government orders, websites & media reports, we collated data on the nature of NPIs2/n
Jul 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@meghnay3, @_kanikas_, Alamu and I wrote about the income and livelihood loss due to #SecondWave of the coronavirus in India. We map states that imposed partial or full lockdowns, and highlight research that discusses economic ramifications of these interventions.
Thread after short rant against nepotism in academia as reproduced by @IndianExpress who agreed to run this article as an Online Exclusive and then disappeared for two months without publishing this piece: medium.com/@aarushi.kalra…
