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COVID-19 may be forgotten but it is not gone: JAMA

September 13, 2023

Hybrid immunity which combines vaccination and infection provides the most robust protection against severe disease, hospitalization, and death, cautions the...

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Global initiative to develop vaccines against emerging COVID variants

February 23, 2023

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Scientists fear that new coronaviruses in the future could be highly transmissible as well as lethal, which may imperil the protection provided by current...

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Claiming daughter killed by Covishield vaccine, father seeks Rs 1000 crore compensation

September 3, 2022

Dilip Lunawat says his daughter, Dr Snehal Lunawat, took the jab after being told COVID vaccines did not pose any risk A father of a deceased medical student...

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Azithromycin is new paracetamol in India

August 13, 2022

Despite the studies to the contrary, the drug has caught on as a default treatment option for Covid-19 in the country. Azithromycin is now considered the most...

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Fact-check: Mother’s milk no substitute for vaccines

August 5, 2022

Vaccines are the most useful and lifesaving inventions in medical history. Beware of baseless claims that try to create panic and spread unscientific views on...

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The Cold War over Covid-19 vaccines

July 2, 2022

There are more than 160 drug candidates in 12 countries, with 26 entering clinical trials. A host of powerful countries, including the United States, China...

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WHO: 14.9m Covid-19 deaths in the world, 4.74m in India

May 6, 2022

India objects to “the use of mathematical models for projecting excess mortality estimates in view of the availability of authentic data.” New estimates from...

First Check

Fact-check: Vaccinated people are not more likely to die of COVID-19

April 27, 2022

A tweet claiming that “Government of Canada data shows the triple vaccinated are over 5x more likely to die of COVID-19 than the unvaccinated” is based on...

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‘There is no vaccine for the infodemic’

April 8, 2022

Medical and scientific community need to champion the cause of health fact-checking to combat the virus of misinformation. COVID-19 pandemic came with a flow...

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How misinformation is making India’s fight against COVID-19 more difficult

March 12, 2022

At the height of the first wave of COVID-19 in India viral videos suggested that Indians use home remedies such as clove, black pepper, caraway (ajwain), and...