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HII talks to Neha Chandra on the role of the public health consultant

“A quick question for all the healthcare communication professionals: How often does trade media make to your target media list when you need to disseminate a press release? Now take a second to evaluate the content of your release and ask yourself if it suits the profile of the trade media you are pitching to.” …

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PandemiCast XV, Part I: The view from Africa

The long-awaited fifteenth episode of PandemiCast is finally here – but it is in two parts. This episode, you will know from the trailer, is an insight into the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. In this special edition, you will hear from leading members of the Baird’s CMC network and its connections from across Africa. They …

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Bed shortages in Bombay High Court’s crosshairs

The Bombay High Court has directed the administration in Maharashtra – India’s worst-affected state in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic – to list admissions of COVID-19 patients since March amidst mounting concerns over bed shortages in the state. Justices Zaka Haq and Anil Kilor issued the directive in the wake ofc a Times of India …

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Arsenicum Album 30 for COVID-19 embraced in Gujarat?

Reports indicate that homoeopathic treatments such as Arsenicum Album 30 for COVID-19 are being dispensed in significant numbers by the state government in Gujarat. The Wire reports that the Gujarat state health department informed the World Health Organization (WHO) on August 20th that it had disseminated the homoeopathic treatment Arsenicum Album 30 as a prophylactic …

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Convalescent plasma therapy: U.S. emergency approval fuels hope but caution still advised

The decision by the United States government to approve the use of convalescent plasma therapy for treating cases of COVID-19 has made international headlines and fuels hope that the treatment may be a cause for optimism in the fight against the pandemic. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced earlier this week that emergency …

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COVID-19 reinfection: Reports pour in

Hong Kong reports that it has documented the world’s first COVID-19 reinfection – and additional reports have poured in. The region announced the news earlier this week, as a man who was infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – or, simply, coronavirus – the virus that causes the disease COVID-19 – four-and-a-half-months …

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Three million and counting: COVID-19 still surging

India surpassed three million cases of COVID-19 over the weekend. However, even as the disease continues to surge across the nation, hope may be on the horizon as recovery figures now exceed those of new cases of the disease. Coverage of the pandemic in India now appears split between two sides of the same story. …

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Antibody tests: One in four Indians infected?

More than a quarter of Indians may already have contracted COVID-19 – the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or, simply, coronavirus. This is on the basis of an analysis of antibody tests conducted by a leading private laboratory. Dr A. Velumani, the chairman, managing Director and chief executive officer of …

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Putting COVID-19 in perspective

India has quickly risen to one of the nations most severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, given the consistently mixed messages from both the media and politicians alike regarding the true scale of the issues India faces, it is worth putting COVID-19 into perspective. Such are the aims of a recent article reported by …

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