Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata We are all well aware of the increasing number of deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 3.42 million deaths recorded, the pandemic continues to impose risk on both the economic as well as healthcare sectors. COVID-19 or coronavirus is caused by SARS-CoV-2, which is an enveloped virus […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta As the second wave progresses, we are increasingly seeing new and “unpredictable” symptoms associated with the coronavirus. One among those conditions that have silently been causing serious damage is the condition called “Happy Hypoxia”. What is Happy Hypoxia? It is a condition associated with COVID-19 that “seems to defy basic […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata As rightfully pointed out by Lois McMaster Bujold, “The dead cannot cry out for justice. The living must do so for them.” Philosophically looking into the sentence, this is exactly what the present situation of the COVID requires. There are several deaths of loved ones all around in India and […]
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Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata When dealing with treatments relating to human health, we need to take care of two things: i.) the cure should be developed on the basis of all criteria including the majority of the population, and ii.) side-effects should be absent or negligible. Any drug or vaccine to be identified safe, […]
AISHILA KAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA To fulfil the shortage of nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Radiology at the University of South Florida (USF) create NP swabs using a point-of-care 3D printer. At the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) results of the first trial of 3D-printed NP […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta River Neeru in the Bhaderwah area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district was seen in dire straits after hundreds of fish were found abandoned at several places along the river. It was only after the death of such a huge number of fish that the local people noticed the mysterious […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata In New Delhi, since ILBS Hospital, initiates its plasma bank from July, requests have poured in continuously. Jai Prakash said that when someone close to you is about to die, you will take whatever form of hope you can find, age of 44, who obtained plasma last month for his […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta When an obvious cause of the disease is not present, a doctor takes into account the patient’s medical history, age, symptoms, test results and overall health to figure out what is wrong. By doing this and thus correlating different factors, they figure out what is most likely the issue. This […]
Sampriti Roy, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta SARS-CoV-2, the talk of the town (read “world”), still lacks information related to its origin and exact mechanism. The virus, found to cause DAD (diffuse alveolar damage), leads to respiratory failure which appears to be the common mechanism of death in patients with severe COVID-19 infection. However, with […]
