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Get Your Freak On

No Rimming, Kissing or Face‑to‑Face Positions: Covid19 Safe Sex Guidelines Differ Across the World

Most recently, a U.K. sexual health charity released guidelines answering a question that has pervaded people’s minds since the coronavirus pandemic began: can we have sex? Functioning on the premise...

Speed Up The Shots

How Covid19 Variants Are Making It Even More Critical to Vaccinate Everyone, Quickly

Mutations in the novel coronavirus — natural to the process of virus replication and widespread infection — have given rise to Covid19 variants “of concern” around the world, mainly in...

Summertime Sadness

The Buzz Cut: Why People Got So Obsessed With the Horrifically Bad ‘365 Days’ Movie

...and more importantly, pitiful. How did this happen? * The coronavirus pandemic has forced employers and employees to consider alternates to the five-day office work week. While the debate between...

Test The Waters

What Is Serological Testing and Why Is It Important?

...a few drops of blood. Furthermore, these tests are cheaper, and faster to run, than the nasal swab tests for active coronavirus infection. However, antibody tests cannot confirm whether an...

By Anubhuti Matta

Someone? Anyone?

People Are Relying on the Internet for a Covid19 Diagnosis. But Dr. Google Is Often Wrong, Study Finds

...Scientists still haven’t been able to nail down a concrete set of symptoms associated with being infected with the coronavirus — every other week, rumors about foot rashes, or loss...

Now Is Not the Time to Get Tired of Social Distancing

...How Likely Are You to Get Coronavirus? Very. Except, these old routines can be deadly in the time of coronavirus. Now is the time to hold on, to figure out...

Pressure Cooker

For People With Mental Health Conditions, Constant Covid19 Updates Make Everything Worse

Jaimini Shah, a 28-year-old media professional, was diagnosed with anxiety three years ago. But she says she hasn’t felt as bad as she’s feeling now. “The constant updates about coronavirus,...

By Anubhuti Matta

Why Being In Isolation Feels So Tiring

...they’re like everyone else, or the fact that the number of coronavirus deaths are increasing, or rumors that the lockdown may be extended — all of which has become a...

Self‑Medicating With Chloroquine to Treat or Prevent Covid19 Can Be Fatal

With coronavirus dominating news-cycles and living room discussions worldwide, panic is running high globally. Touted as the cure for Covid19, chloroquine is the latest entrant to the rumors and myths...

By Devrupa Rakshit

1 Crore In 21 Days

Donate to the Lockdown Relief Fund: All Funds Will Go to Daily Wage Workers During Lockdown

We are raising one crore Rupees in 21 days. CLICK HERE TO DONATE. On March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic, but...

By The Swaddle Team

Hydroxychloroquine Study Is Retracted As India Gears Up to Distribute the Drug in Mumbai Slums

...coronaviruses, especially the new virus. However, the findings drew global censure as the study was neither double-blind nor randomized-controlled — which are standard steps taken to reduce biases and ensure...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Can't Do Without

From WWE to Marijuana: What Countries’ Essential Services List Tells Us About Their Priorities

...and authoritarianism. The coronavirus outbreak has also revealed what matters to us — from the socio-political issues we care about, the friends we want to keep in touch with, the...

Social Responsibility

Celebs Are Increasingly Peddling Choice As an Argument Against Vaccines

As the world frantically searches for a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, anti-vaxxers — people who question the efficacy of immunization — have come out of the woodwork. Most recently,...

Respectfully Disagree: The Swaddle Team’s Weekly Culture Podcast

...it will make the idea of beauty as choice more real. (1 May 2020) Episode 25: Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories In this week’s episode the team takes a detour from disagreeing,...

By The Swaddle Team

Sustainable Protection

Scientists Design Reusable N‑95 Mask Prototype in Effort to Ensure Safety, Sustainability

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in demand for protective masks, especially for vulnerable healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus. In an attempt to tackle this demand, scientist...

Who Did Better?

Cultures in Which Following Rules Is Important Have Fared Better Amid the Pandemic: Study

...the pandemic. It explains the coronavirus case and death rate discrepancies between the U.S. and Japan, or Mexico and South Korea, through cultural norms in these countries, and how the...

Misinformation Is Injurious To Health

Covid19 Misinformation Is Spreading Across 87 Countries, Costing Lives: Study

...cure coronavirus.” And, while the study did not delve into the repercussions of that specific misinformation, news reports suggest that, at least, one individual had to be hospitalized after drinking...

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

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