herd immunity

A man walks past a graffiti of people wearing protective masks amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on a street in Navi Mumbai

COVID-19: What the Third National Sero-Survey Result Does and Doesn’t Tell Us

Murad Banaji 05/02/2021

At face value, between the second and third surveys,...

FILE PHOTO: Health workers collect personal data from a man as they prepare a list during a door-to-door survey on the outskirts of Ahmedabad

Vaccine ‘Hesitancy’ Rises Among Indians as COVID Cases Fall: Survey

Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Krishna N. Das 18/12/2020

A survey by citizen survey platform LocalCircles found that...

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What’s the Best Strategy To Deploy a COVID-19 Vaccine?

Jill Neimark 20/11/2020

Because vaccine supply will be limited at first, the...

Outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai

The Long and Short of ‘Long COVID-19’

Dr Narayana Subramaniam 27/10/2020

'Long COVID' has been found to be more common...

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Herd Immunity for COVID-19 – a Straightforward Explainer

Murad Banaji 11/10/2020

Twenty simple questions and answers to a clearer sense...

People wearing protective masks wait in line to board a bus amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai

The Problem With Using Herd Immunity To Control COVID-19

T. Jacob John 08/10/2020

The 30% herd immunity assumption, based on the ICMR's...

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Acquired Immunity Against Novel Coronavirus May Be Short Lived, Study Finds

The Wire Staff 21/09/2020

A study published in the journal Nature Medicine found...