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As Covid-19 third waves looks, a community-led plan could help India combat the challenge

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By Pradip Awate, Sumedh MK
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After weeks of havoc across the country amid the second wave, Covid-19 cases in India are finally declining. In these moments of the much-needed respite, it’s worth remembering that we have only limited time left before we face the looming threat of the third wave. It is time for us to look back, learn from experiences and scale up what worked. One of such experiences is how collective community conscience transcended into affirmative action.
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Explainer: The difference between vaccine efficacy and vaccine effectiveness – and why it matters

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By Sumedh MK
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With India’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign proceeding, two terms that sound similar are prone to misinterpretation: vaccine efficacy and vaccine effectiveness. The dictionary meanings of these terms are different from the way they are used in scientific discourse. Understanding them could help readers make informed decisions when they are getting vaccinated. Vaccine efficacy Many people interpret vaccine efficacy to mean the percentage of people who would not get the disease after vaccination.
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By playing pandemic politics against Maharashtra, Centre is weakening the battle against Covid-19

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By Sumedh MK
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Maharashtra’s Health Minister Rajesh Tope last week expressed concern about the state’s rapidly depleting Covid-19 vaccine stocks. Soon after, the Union Health Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan, claimed that this was a “deplorable attempt to distract attention from state’s failures and spread panic among people”. Harsh Vardhan said that the Maharashtra government had displayed a “lackadaisical attitude” that had ”singularly bogged down the entire country’s efforts to fight the virus”.
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