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Prof Anup Malani calculates the reproductive rate for the COVID-19 outbreak each day. Reproductive rate value is greater than 1 for all northeastern states
Northeast India could witness a surge in Covid cases: Report.
A health worker in protective suit takes nasal swab of a girl to test for COVID-19 in Burha Mayong village, Morigaon district of Assam (AP) NEW DELHI: The north-east could be poised to become the next target of the ongoing second wave of Covid, according to a forecasting tool based on data till May 21. Development Data Lab, a research organisation working on open data, and a team led by University of Chicago’s Prof Anup Malani calculates the reproductive rate (Rt) for the Covid-19 outbreak each day. This is a measure of how many people an infected person is likely to infect in a community....
Males at higher risk of severe COVID-19 and mortality in Indian case study Low- and middle-income countries have been heavily impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is caused by the infective agent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A new US-based study by researchers at Dartmouth College, the Development Data Lab, IDFC Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Chicago shows that the infection fatality rate (IFR) could be twice as high for men compared to women and increases much less at older ages compared to high-incom...