All stories by VAIHAYASI PANDE DANIEL
The healthy and young may not even ever receive The Vaccine
Rediff.com4 Jan 2021'What proportion of the people require the vaccine for us to manage this entire COVID-19 situation?'
India can deliver COVID-19 vaccine swiftly and efficiently
Rediff.com4 Jan 2021'Rolling out the vaccine is not a major challenge in India.'
'We were lucky we got the disease late'
Rediff.com20 Dec 2020'We were lucky, in many ways, that we got the disease late.'
Please note: Life after vaccine won't be normal
Rediff.com20 Dec 2020'Essentially there are three things the government should be doing: Identify who you are going to get your vaccine from, figure out how you are going to pay for it, and figure out how you're going to deliver it and to whom.'
'Ahmed Bhai's political intellect was very high'
Rediff.com7 Dec 2020'There were any number of Congress leaders who disliked Sonia Gandhi, but they were very close to Ahmed Bhai and he would listen, and give a shoulder to cry upon.'
Is COVID-19 lethal for your heart?
Rediff.com7 Dec 2020'The larger number of patients, who are being affected by COVID-19, are essentially people who have a history of heart disease to begin with, and then experience a more severe form of the infection with COVID-19, because of the existing risk factor.'
How COVID-19 affects the heart
Rediff.com7 Dec 2020'The more seriously ill you are from heart disease, the more seriously ill you could get from infection with COVID-19.'
'Ahmed Bhai was less of a Muslim and more of a Gujarati'
Rediff.com4 Dec 2020'He always avoided eating non-vegetarian food in presence of his deputies if they were fasting for the month of Shravan.' 'There were no Hindu, Jain, Parsi and Swaminarayan festivals he would forget.' 'He was a conservative Muslim and therefore could get along well with conservative Hindus.'
'COVID-19 can quietly enter your body, without causing pain'
Rediff.com3 Dec 2020'The COVID-19 virus has the power to quietly enter your body, without causing pain via symptoms, because it craftily manipulates your pain response.'
How we can DEFEAT COVID-19
Rediff.com3 Dec 2020'If our body is able to mount a very successful immune response, we can negate the virus.'
COVID-19: 'We will be dealing with it for 2 years at least'
Rediff.com29 Oct 2020'The most intriguing thing (about COVID-19) is the range of the illness -- from asymptomatic or less symptoms to death and quite severe manifestations.' 'The vaccine will be at least another year away from having any effect.'
'COVID-19 is deadly in 0.1 per cent people'
Rediff.com20 Oct 2020'Some of the longer-term implications of COVID-19 are not related to the virus itself.' 'They are actually related to immune responses from the virus.'
COVID-19: The 21 Day Immunity Plan
Rediff.com14 Oct 2020'I challenge people just do it for a month to see how you feel, okay?'
COVID-19: You can SAVE your life!
Rediff.com14 Oct 2020'Try to get in 30 to 60 minutes of a brisk walk every day, like my grandparents would do in the village -- twice a day they would go for morning walks and they would go after dinner.'
Do people ever recover from COVID-19?
Rediff.com29 Sep 2020'People who have already got diabetes or heart disease or high blood pressure seem to be more badly affected by the disease.'
'COVID-19: 'We are in this for years'
Rediff.com29 Sep 2020'Vigilance is the enemy of the virus.' 'We need to be alert all the time, about this, until we fully understand it.' 'And that's going to take years, actually.'
Only 0.33 per cent Indians have had COVID-19
Rediff.com22 Sep 2020'It might get worse. We don't really know what is it that is resulting in the high value of R now.'
India's COVID-19 case surge not 'unexpected'
Rediff.com15 Sep 2020'There will be increases.' 'There is bound to be, but you have to bear with all this.' 'The focus should be to provide optimum care for those who are in the need.' 'We should focus more on care, better care. Not on testing.'
How to protect yourself from COVID-19
Rediff.com7 Sep 2020'The social distancing vaccine.' 'And the mask vaccine.' 'If you adhere to these two vaccines and go and meet people in a well-ventilated room -- not in an enclosed, non-ventilated, room -- you are probably going to be okay.'
COVID-19: 'Seek treatment early'
Rediff.com7 Sep 2020Until we have these (kinds of) patients come down in numbers, the fear, the mortality is always going to be there