Dr S Ranganathan

Evolution and nature doesn’t give space for any new species to evolve just to destroy or eliminate the other.   The theory of live and let others live is seen even among prey-predator relationship.   The prey species are advantaged with greater food availability, fecundity power and niche based, modified distribution etc., so that the population of ratio of the predator in the given ecosystem is always balanced.   The arrival of novel coronavirus has caused more scare than actually cause disease or death.   Incidentally the novel coronavirus has thoroughly exposed the shallow wisdom of the so called science and profit centric approach of medicine in manufacturing and selling fear over awareness about novel coronavirus and COVID 19. The interesting facet of the viral contraction was that vast majority of people despite with high load of virus remained asymptomatic or recovered from the virus with mild and manageable symptoms.   Initially it was presumed that the viral l

Recently the scientific and medical community has come up with a new theory possibly embroidered with own scientific imagination that all COVID 19 patients who got completely recovered may harbour the virus in latent form and may develop some medical complication post recovery and such possibility cannot be ruled out for at least 3-5 months, post recovery. Through spinning the above ghost story or scare crow, the scientific and medical world looks like wants to impress upon the policy makers and administrators that the novel coronavirus and COVID 19 horror is not over and the real horror is only yet to begin.    Release of the new spin ball may be due to the reason that both the novel coronavirus and COVID 19 are losing charm, sheen and shine among general public and it looks like, people wants their life, employment and economy to move forward and never wants to get stuck with the virus or health scare.   The courage of general public might have rattled the medical and sc

The entire world is running after developing a vaccine for COVID 19.   Many countries have even allowed great dilution in their new drug development norms/policies and scientific temper because, according to all those countries, a vaccine for COVID 19 alone may save human life, therefore vaccine must be brought out at any cost and even if such an effort demands some degree of dilution of science’ is needed. Paradoxically the same scientific community comprised of clinicians, epidemiologists, virologists and the cohort of other allied experts are also releasing all most every day several new clippings about the pathology of the disease including some additional clinical symptoms .     In several occasions, one scientific revelation contradicts and questions the earlier observation and even defeat the basic trust of people in science.   But thanks to the ‘novelty’ of the virus, everything is absorbed as part of continuous learning by the scientific community and that is how the

If we analyse the total number of people who turned positive for novel coronavirus out of the total population in any given country, one thing becomes quite evident and obvious, that is, the large proportion of the population in all most all countries in the world are not even turned positive for the virus; let alone they being asymptomatic or remains with mild symptoms of COVID 19?    Should we therefore assume that all those people who are not even positive for the virus are strictly following the norms of social distancing, wearing mask, washing hands frequently, have taken all necessary precautions and hence have not contracted the virus?   Or else, the virus is deliberately avoiding all of them and infect only a few select people may be based on some selection criteria which is best known only to the virus.    In any case the political and or the bureaucratic nepotism or recommendation based infectivity of certain people by the novel coronavirus looks remote and impos

Modi government has terribly defeated India in two fronts viz., preventing the spread of coronavirus despite stringent lockdown and destroying the economy, life and livelihood of millions of people.   The question is how a new pathogen that spreads so rapidly across the world can show great disparity and discrimination in its infectivity or in other words causes infection at different levels in different people?   Majority of the people reported to have shown no clinical evidence after the viral entry and the rest have presented a little symptom (mild symptoms) and then the virus disappears to the space.   If the virus is a true pathogen, it may not show such disparity in its infectivity.   Then we must ask the question as whether the game of viral load and immunology the real culprit of COVID 19 in some people?   It has been established even in a deadly pathogen like Hepatitis B virus that the viral load only contributes to higher viral kinetics, priming the immune