Healthcare
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Down with eggs?
Razib Khan asks whether there is a good nutritional case for BJP-aligned governments removing eggs from school meals, arguing that growing children need protein and fat, that India still has…
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South Asian nations
Razib Khan dislikes the ‘GDP wars’ between India, Bangladesh and Pakistan and argues that health indicators are a harder-to-fake comparison, saying Pakistan is now the subcontinent’s ‘slow kid’ and that…
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Looking back at COVID-19
A pathology trainee in Texas, writing on policy rather than clinical medicine, looks back at the Covid-19 response, drawing on two New Yorker pieces and recalling early complacency about outbreaks…
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Open Thread – 10/03/2020
Open thread of 3 October 2020, opening with a question about why India’s COVID-19 deaths and cases are plateauing, and whether recovery in major population centres explains it despite local…
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Covid Lockdown. Some Questions
Omar Ali questions lockdown strategy by comparing responses: Pakistan’s brief, ineffective lockdown followed by a surprising slowdown in cases, India’s stricter, longer one with rising numbers, and the US’s mixed…
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Browncast Episode 92: Amrit Pati on Swab for India
BrownCast episode 92 with Amrut Pati on Swab for India, the project he now works on full time because his father Mahesh has leukaemia and needs a stem-cell match, and…
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Browncast episode 89: Dr Sunny Anand, part 2
BrownCast episode 89, the second session with Dr Sunny Anand, a Stanford paediatric intensivist, on his work with the Heart to Heart Foundation’s free heart surgery centres in India and…
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Browncast episode 87: Dr Sunny Anand on healthcare, free heart hospitals in India, etc
BrownCast episode 87 with Dr Sunny Anand, a Stanford paediatric intensivist who works with the Heart to Heart Foundation and Sai Sanjeevani hospitals, on free heart surgery centres across India…
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India and COVID-19
Quotes a TIME report doubting India’s low COVID-19 case count given limited testing, and asks readers why no major outbreak has appeared, noting Iran’s far higher numbers.
