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Sambit Dash, PhD
@sambit_dash
Asst Prof of Biochemistry | Cultural Sec @MAHE_Manipal | Public Policy | Words: Mint, Wire, DailyO, Dinalipi | MedEd, EdTech, Health | Poetry | Views Personal
Feb 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
History is stranger than fiction (very short thread):

Maratha king Shivaji in a sand art on Puri sea beach. The very Puri from where the Marathas ran away scared in 1803. 1/ #Odisha The British started to annex Odisha from Southern Odisha (Ganjam side). Marathas were ruling Odisha and the British had struck a deal with one of their commanders to help them with the taking over of Odisha till Cuttack. 2/
Nov 6, 2021 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
Since this got some attention, and few asked for details, let me elaborate. People were like this is keto, you don't know gluconeogenesis?, we are without sugar since 5 years, etc. So first some basics. 1/ #biochemistry #diet #nutrition So, what happens when you have had dinner at 9 pm and slept off?
Okay, before that, the brain is a peculiar thing. Its preferred and predominant fuel is glucose.
The food takes roughly 4 hrs to be digested and assimilated. What supplies glucose after 1-2 am? #nutrition #diet
Jun 1, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
So, yesterday I completed 14 days of isolation.
Yes, the virus struck.
It was a breakthrough infection as I was fully vaccinated on 12th March.
And, vaccines work!
Let me share the story in a few tweets.. #COVID19 I did not run a high temperature in all these days. Popped only one paracetamol on Day 1.
Oxygen saturation normal throughout. No extra medicines (took 3 tablets of multivitamin and then decided not to make expensive urine).
Jul 23, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
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So some sly tweets and shades thrown at me for calling out the anti-science part of conducting Puri #rathajatraJatra this year. Official inconsistencies about the positive cases notwithstanding, some basic science education for the smarter-by-the-half folks. #Odisha Firstly, one can start spread of #coronavirus 3 days prior to showing symptoms, in fact maximally infective a day prior to appearance of symptoms. Both asymptomatic & pre-symptomatic can spread. 4-32% in results by WHO. #rathajatra #COVID19
Apr 13, 2020 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
A story about a pandemic.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. In the summer of 2005, these immortal words of Neil Armstrong was emailed by Dr Terrence Tumpey to his colleagues. Working alone in a high security laboratory with biometric fingerprint, iris scan for his eyes alone, he had been the first man to resurrect an old demon – the 1918 Spanish Flu virus. #SpanishFlu