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Absolutely False

Debunking the Myths About Covid19

...your breath for 10 seconds, you don’t have Covid19. Covid19 is often asymptomatic. While it’s a respiratory infection that can make breathing difficult, Covid19 often manifests without symptoms, meaning you...

By The Swaddle Team

Post-Covid Problems

1 in 5 Covid19 Survivors Are Diagnosed With Mental Disorders Within 90 Days of Testing Positive, Finds a Study

Survivors of Covid19 are at a greater risk of being diagnosed with mental health disorders, one study has found. The results showed that nearly one in five Covid19 survivors received...

By Devrupa Rakshit

To Have Or Not To Have

Unresponsive Helplines, Limited Testing Are Leaving People Suspicious of Their Covid19 Status

Utsav Sarkar, 26, from Mumbai, was 100% sure he needed a Covid19 test. A day after he had interacted with two of his brother’s guests at home — one from...

Defence of The Clones

New Clinical Trial Will Use Artificial Antibodies to Treat Covid19 Lung Inflammation

Recently, doctors in China saw positive results when they treated severely ill Covid19 patients with a single dose of antibodies drawn from the blood of Covid19 survivors; the U.S. began...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Fair And Equitable

When We Finally Have a Covid19 Vaccine, Who Should Get it First? Experts Disagree.

The world is currently racing to develop a safe, effective, and accessible Covid19 vaccine. While these efforts tout new achievements every day and take us closer to a way out...

Missing Numbers

Data Gaps on Sex Differences in Covid19 Infections Could Hamper Treatment, Vaccination, Report Says

...rates. In fact, according to the new report, the sex of roughly four in 10 Covid19 cases and three in 10 Covid19 deaths are unknown globally, according to the report....

By Devrupa Rakshit

Ayush-maan Bhava

UN Concerned About the Deadly Consequences of Covid19 Myths

...the Pacific, told The Guardian. The UN is particularly worried about the unproven, and frequently false, Covid19 information circulating on social media. Rumors are everywhere: that 5G networks spread Covid19,...

By Devrupa Rakshit

One Step Forward Ten Steps Back

In Its Race to Fight Covid19, Is India Forgetting Its TB Problem?

...significantly to immediate threats, like Covid19, as compared to long-term ones, like the continuous threat of TB. As compared to Covid19, TB, an infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the...

By Anubhuti Matta

Nature Hasn't Healed

Covid19 Has Made Us More Vulnerable to the Impact of Climate Change. What Now?

...of human action on nature, leaves out the fact that large populations in developing countries are a lot more vulnerable to climate change now, in the face of Covid19. The...

By Rishika Das Roy

No End In Sight

Why Some Covid19 Infections Last Weeks, Months, and Others Last Only Days

Covid19 symptoms that last for weeks, or even months, are increasingly reported across the globe — including by prominent sportspersons and other celebrities. Currently referred to as ‘long Covid’ or...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Bringing Order To Corona-Chaos

Study of Covid19 Patients Identifies ‘Most Likely Order’ of Symptoms

...Southern Hemisphere. They found that while influenza starts with cough, Covid19 and other coronavirus-related infections start with fever. But what sets Covid19 apart from the other coronavirus-related infections is “The...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Government Report Shows Only 57% Of Covid19 Deaths In India Were Patients With Comorbidities

...cases of Covid19. Related on The Swaddle: What Are Covid19 ‘Immunity Passports’ and Will They Work? As the pandemic is expanding, analyzing Covid19-related data at regular intervals aids our understanding...

By Devrupa Rakshit

The Doctor Must See You Now

How Doctors Are the Unwitting, Frustrated Soldiers in the War Against Covid19

Frontline healthcare professionals have been applauded — with hands, with utensils, with candles — for their grit, determination, and steadfastness during the Covid19 pandemic. These heroes, as media headlines and...

Lives Vs. Livelihoods

What Are Covid19 ‘Immunity Passports’ and Will They Work?

...Covid19 — so that they can fight off the novel coronavirus if they are re-exposed to, or re-infected by, it. Related on The Swaddle: Study: Covid19 Most Contagious Before Symptoms...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Covid19 Reinfection: Myth or Not? Well, It’s Complicated.

...of the first possible reinfection he came across in May — a patient who had tested positive for Covid19 and was isolated and treated. A Covid19 test 17 days after...

Dining Out Is A High Risk Factor For Covid19, U.S. CDC Finds

...spaces with poor air circulation and minimal social distancing — both primary reasons behind the spread of Covid19. The CDC analysis investigating the likelihood of Covid19 spread in these spaces...

Where Are The Women?

Women Experts Are Left Marginalized, Unquoted by Media in Covid19 Reporting

Women are missing from Covid19 news reporting, perspectives and decisions, a new report commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found. Women experts were largely “drowned out” by men...

Treating Covid19 With Plasma Therapy Unhelpful in Most Cases: ICMR

...in Covid19 patients. “Despite all this evidence, inappropriate use of convalescent plasma is taking place, and we thought the right way to address this issue was through this advisory,” Dr....

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