A crowded market in Beawar, Rajasthan, India
July 7, 2021 – The deadly COVID-19 surge in India and South Asian countries over the past few months has led to overwhelmed hospitals, questionable treatments for patients, and rampant misinformation. In addition, countries have struggled to ensure consistent mask-wearing while waiting for larger percentages of their populations to be vaccinated.
Alarmed by the crisis, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Satchit Balsari helped create a consortium called the Swasth Community Science Alliance (CSA), aimed at providing simple and practical guidelines on how to manage COVID-19 in rural or resource-poor areas in India. CSA has also been collaborating with another group of experts, led by researchers from Yale University, that recently launched a campaign aimed at normalizing mask-wearing throughout South Asia, called NORM. Those involved in these combined efforts include scientists, physicians, and public health practitioners from
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New Delhi: Rare, life-threatening COVID-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.
Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems and diabetes. An uptick in cases across India of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children - also seen in the US and Europe at the height of their outbreaks - is a harbinger of a potentially deadly spate of the paediatric illness in the coming weeks.
New Delhi: Rare, life-threatening COVID-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.
Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems and diabetes. An uptick in cases across India of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children - also seen in the US and Europe at the height of their outbreaks - is a harbinger of a potentially deadly spate of the paediatric illness in the coming weeks.