Bayes Theorem, Vaccination and Media mis-interpretations
Recently I read an article in a reputed magazine discussing the resurgence of COVID in Israel, a country that had vaccinated a major fraction of its population.
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Mucormycosis and COVID
Mucormycosis is uncommon and is largely confined to patients with serious pre-existing diseases Mucormycosis originating in paranasal sinuses and nose predominantly affects patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus.
COVID testing effects positivity rates
In the circle of family and friends, there has been a lot of discussion about India's poor COVID management. Although I do not disagree with them, the situation could have been managed in a better fashion given the late onset of COVID relative to the rest of the world.
Analyzing COVID pharmacology
The novel corona-virus continues to puzzle researchers around the world, thereby raising risks to magnanimous scales. However, the good news is that the human efforts are matching its levels as well. One such research was performed by Dr. Daniel Jacobson’s group who utilized worlds second fastest supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennesse and studied around 2.5 billion genetic combinations.
Impact of COVID in developing Asian economies
- Summarised from Asian Development Bank's authors A. Abiad, M. Arao, E. Lavina, R. Platitas, J. Pagaduan, C. Jabagat's chapter in COVID in developing economies
Impact of COVID in Middle-East and North Africa
- Summarised from World Bank's authors Rabah Arezki, Rachel Yuting Fan and Ha Nguyen's chapter in COVID in developing economies
Impact of COVID in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Summarised from World Bank's authors Calvin Z. Djiofack, Hasan Dudu and Albert G. Zeufack's chapter in COVID in developing economies
Where is the Economic Risk of COVID shock highest: developing countries
- Summarised from Ilan Noy, Nguyen Doan, Benno Ferrarini and Donghyun Park's article in COVID-19 in developing countries
COVID in Emerging Economies
- Summarised from Constantino Hevia and Andy Neumeyer's chapter from COVID-19 in Developing Economies The authors plotted Google mobility trends for places of work and for retail and recreation like restaurants, cafes etc which showed declines,
Macroeconomics of Flu
The macroeconomic flu is a temporary negative supply and demand shock, that is a temporary decline in output followed by a quick recovery.
Rebuilding Investor Confidence in Times of Uncertainty
FDI would play an important role in the post-COVID revival of the developing world. World Bank's Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2019-20 discusses the FDI scenario before COVID and during the COVID times.