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Update: the Russian Vaccine
Update: the Russian Vaccine
With quite a lot of controversy surrounding it when initially announced by the Russian government (due to a lack of transparency), data…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Sep 6, 2020
Youth and COVID-19
Youth and COVID-19
It is common belief that the elderly and those with compromised immunity systems are those most affected by this pandemic-inducing…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Aug 23, 2020
Update: CCP & COVID-19
Update: CCP & COVID-19
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic still in full swing, many were quick to blame the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for covering up the…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Aug 19, 2020
The Russian Vaccine: Top Scientist Quits over Ethical Concerns
The Russian Vaccine: Top Scientist Quits over Ethical Concerns
With the Russian Federation announcing the approval of their new (and controversial) COVID-19 vaccine (the Sputnik V), there has been a…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Aug 14, 2020
Russia’s “New” Vaccine: can we trust it?
Russia’s “New” Vaccine: can we trust it?
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, the stakes to develop a vaccine couldn’t be higher, however it should be noted that the…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Aug 11, 2020
Update: Plague inChina
Update: Plague inChina
With the ongoing pandemic in full swing, other recent infectious outbreaks tend to be ignored by the general public, one such case would…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Aug 10, 2020
COVID-19: The Hidden Death Toll
COVID-19: The Hidden Death Toll
With the COVID-19 pandemic still in full swing, there is an increasing exponential trend in the global death toll associated with this…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Aug 8, 2020
Infections & Conflicts: Dysentery during WWII
Infections & Conflicts: Dysentery during WWII
It has often been stated that war is hell, and having an infectious disease outbreak in such a situation might be compared to the deepest…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Aug 3, 2020
Update: Origins of COVID-19
Update: Origins of COVID-19
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, it’s easy for one to come to the conclusion that this viral respiratory illness is one…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 30, 2020
Production of PPEs: China’s forced labour
Production of PPEs: China’s forced labour
As most of the world is still in the midst of a dangerous global pandemic, the demand to personal protective equipment (PPE) such as…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 28, 2020
Temperature and Covid19
Temperature and Covid19
Does high temperature kill the Coronavirus?
Abishek
Jul 27, 2020
Update: Antibodies & COVID-19
Update: Antibodies & COVID-19
With most of the world still suffering from the dangerous COVID-19 pandemic, one piece of information which once brought hope in the…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 24, 2020
Russia’s Secretive Vaccine
Russia’s Secretive Vaccine
With the global COVID-19 infection rate and total dead rising on a daily basis, the stakes for developing a potential cure or vaccine for…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 21, 2020
Update: USA & COVID-19
Update: USA & COVID-19
With the world still in the midst of a novel coronavirus pandemic, there has been a visibly varied level in the quality of governmental…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 20, 2020
COVID-19 & Child Marriage in India
COVID-19 & Child Marriage in India
With most world governments still trying to contain the spread of this dangerous strain of novel coronavirus, there has been an unexpected…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 17, 2020
COVID-19 & Australia: a second wave?
COVID-19 & Australia: a second wave?
With many regions of the world facing their second major wave of COVID-19 outbreaks, there are quite a few “successful” national medical…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 15, 2020
Raw water: Why it’s Dangerous
Raw water: Why it’s Dangerous
Although, us as a modern global society have considerable developed over the last few decades (especially our understanding of diseases)…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 14, 2020
China, Shrimp & COVID-19
China, Shrimp & COVID-19
Recently, Chinese medical authorities claim to have discovered evidence which indicates that the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the dangerous zoonotic…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 11, 2020
COVID-19: The Greek Strategy
COVID-19: The Greek Strategy
As the world is still in the midst of the dangerous COVID-19 pandemic, there have been quite a few terrible strategies implemented and…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 10, 2020
Plague in China
Plague in China
Recently, another cluster of marmot plague has been ident8fied in mainland Asia, this time, in the region of Outer Mongolia in the…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 9, 2020
Mexico & COVID-19
Mexico & COVID-19
With the total number of global COVID-19 numbers increasing in an exponential fashion, many in the general public are quick to forget the…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 8, 2020
Update: Bolsonaro & COVID-19
Update: Bolsonaro & COVID-19
It has officially been confirmed that President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has now contracted the COVID-19 infection. This information was…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 7, 2020
Plague in Mongolia: another outbreak?
Plague in Mongolia: another outbreak?
As of the time of writing, the world is still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many in the general public tend to forget of…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 5, 2020
The N95 Mask: our shield against COVID-19
The N95 Mask: our shield against COVID-19
One critical piece of personal protective equipment commonly being utilized during this dangerous pandemic is the N95 mask (or N95…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 4, 2020
Lopburi: a tale of monkeys in Thailand
Lopburi: a tale of monkeys in Thailand
With many world governments lifting some of their more restrictive coronavirus-related lockdown measures, the citizens they represent are…
Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Jul 1, 2020
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