We surveyed 47,000 low income Indian households to understand socioeconomic impacts of #COVID19 & efficacy of Govt transfers. The results are confronting & point to the lived experience of 800m residents. Find detailed data on impactsofcovid.in. Some highlights in thread

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Stacy Abrams had the governorship of Georgia stolen from her by a corrupt Secretary of State who abused his office to suppress the vote and hand himself the election What did she do? She rolled up her sleeves, registered *800,000* new voters and is about to flip her state blue.

Excellent point by @JenGranholm. If Biden wins Georgia (as now looks likely), huge credit should go to Stacey Abrams for leading a voter registration drive in the state that ensured 800,000 more people were on the register.

What’s truly wicked is that no one seems even slightly fazed or surprised. I ❤️ NYC! (H/T Bobby Ghosh)

Gegen die nächste #Pandemie: #unibern gründet ein Zentrum, um die Entstehung von #Infektionskrankheiten und deren Auswirkungen auf die #Gesundheit, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft zu untersuchen. #StiftungVinetum @C_Leumann Volker Thiel

#HiringNow: Associate/Senior Associate If you're interested in being a part of impactful behaviour change interventions for low-income and marginalized populations, apply now: lnkd.in/ekyx3Fv Tag someone who might be interested! #HiringAlert #ApplyNow #CSBC

As promised, here are the results of the joint Govt of Tamil Nadu & @IDFCinstitute seroprevalence study in the state. Headline: State-level seroprevalence was 31.6%. Seroprevalence ranged from just 11.1% in The Nilgris to 51.0% in Perambalur district. 1/n medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

The study is available at azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/Learning_Loss_…

Oral steroids started too early have often been the provoking factor for rapid deterioration among patients consulting me for a second opinion. Especially true for young patients, in whom fever tends to be high, and prompts the doctor to start oral steroids early.

Given how many of our friends received prescriptions which followed the "everything but the kitchen sink" principle (and in some cases actually caused harm), this is incredibly important guidance.

If there is literally only one piece on Covid in India you'd like to read, make sure it's this interview of ⁦Lancelot Pinto⁩ and ⁦Rajani Surendar Bhat⁩ by ⁦Govindraj Ethiraj⁩. Then make sure everyone in yr circles reads it too. ⁦barkha dutt⁩ indiaspend.com/indiaspend-int…

Use of convalescent plasma for treating COVID-19 patients dropped from Clinical Management Guidelines: ICMR

On the importance of public health beyond scientific breakthroughs: nytimes.com/2021/04/27/mag…

Registration is now open for the June batch of my online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Four webinars on four Saturdays starting June 5. Much interaction, exercises etc. It costs Rs 10k+GST, or US$ 150. You can register here: indiauncut.com/clear-writing/ 🙂

Every few months, we hear about anew variant Most turn out to not be much Well, unfortunately, there's a new variant B.1.1.529 that is concerning What do we know so far? A few things but not a lot Reminder: when it comes to variants, we focus on three things Short thread

Dividing the world into vaccine haves and have-nots is like dividing a swimming pool so it has a "pissing end" and a "no pissing" end. We're still all in the same pool. Humanity has a shared epidemiological destiny. 8/

For those in India and overseas looking for Indian covid data as numbers begin to rise, a reminder that covid19bharat.org, our effort at continuing the work of covid19india.org is up and running. Data can be downloaded from the api as before. Corrections welcome.

The Think Tanker of the Year prize is awarded to an exceptional individual nominated by colleagues. This year the award goes to Reuben Abraham, CEO of India’s IDFC Institute, for leading indispensable research on combatting Covid-19. Many congratulations!

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