In this issue

COVID-19 has been around for at least six months
now, surging across the globe. After all this time, are
we any closer to containing the pandemic? Are there
multiple strains, with the less virulent ones responsible
for fewer deaths in India? Have lockdowns succeeded
in controlling the pandemic? Why have certain
countries managed to contain the virus where others
have failed? And most importantly, what must we do
next? We explore the treatments under consideration,
the latest research on the virus, the probability of a
vaccine’s development and the way forward.

WHAT ARE VIRUSES?

A glimpse into virosphere—that mysterious cusp between life and non-life—will tell us they are part of us, within us, and wrote us into being

5 mins

OUR LIVE-IN VIRUS

Corona has settled over this landmass like a moving cryptic crossword. How do we read its clues?

9 mins

WHAT IS THE PEAK?

Whe the air is vacuum-cleaned of real information, what fills it is the elements of empty anticipation. Rumour, speculation, fear…all these form a suspended particulate matter that we then breathe in. The latest talk doing the rounds was that India would duck back into hibernation—into a strict lockdown—by the middle of June or so. Since Indians are familiar with the phenomenon of a late-evening broadcast fundamentally altering their realities, appending a ‘could be’ or ‘maybe’ on that rumour is pointless. But the reason why the situation spawns such speculation is clear.

10+ mins

Did The Lockdown Work?

This one executive decision was deemed at first to be a no-brainer.

10 mins

DOES INDIA (NOT) HAVE A MILDER EPIDEMIC?

This is a question that has mutated right in front of our eyes, almost as if to mock us.

8 mins

WHERE IS THE DATA?

So we have a bio-earthquake with shifting epicentres in Covid-19, still rumbling unpredictably over our demographic plates.

10+ mins

WHO DECIDES COVID POLICY?

The pandemic has not been kind to Delhi. The state government, no stranger to pugilist moves in politics, is locked in a grim battle. Even since the lockdown was eased, horror stories have been escaping out of city hospitals like ghouls out to torment the populace. The city’s Covid graph is soaring; overloaded hospitals are turning away patients, letting them die without proper medical care. But what’s a crisis if not an opportunity for some extra lashings of mayhem?

8 mins

Vaccine Race— The Candidates

The starting gun was sounded as far back as the weekend of January 11-12, when Chinese authorities released the full sequence of the COVID-19 genome.

10+ mins

PLASMA THERAPY SILVER BULLET OR NOT?

Leave, for a moment, those telescopic shots—those world maps filled with red dots, the Covid Tracker popups spinning and dancing on your screen.

6 mins

Who ‘Created' Covid?

Was the Moon landing fake? Do reptiles rule us? Is Elvis alive? When conspiracy theories start proliferating like mutant viruses…

7 mins

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