Dr S Ranganathan

Nothing can destroy our economy better than the senseless lockdown of Modi.   No new destruction is possible to our economy beyond demonetization, horribly implemented GST and the senseless lockdown.   Need of the hour is not Harvard economists or conservative school of economic thinking, but quite anomalous, highly infective economic stimulus that could spread and reach every Indian instantaneously even before the coronavirus could contract them.   Let them wear mask, wash hands frequently, follow social distancing or be in quarantine or containment chamber, but still the economic package of Modi government must reach them, transform them and such stimulus must transform India as well.   But sadly, what Modi has adopted so far is giving DNS (Dextrose Normal Saline) to a patient in comatose state with multiple organ failure and such measure is neither going to save the patient nor going to make him fit even if survives, in rest of his life. ...

Which pathogen since the identification of the existence of microbes on earth by Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch businessman in mid-1960’s has defied all norms of epidemiology, evolutionary tenets, calendar of epidemic in causing infection all over the world where the infection reaching pandemic proportion?   Microbial communicability, infectivity and host susceptibility alone are sufficient to cause infection but only in the risk group and not in normal individuals.   All infectious diseases caused by the ‘true’ pathogens definitely follow the calendar of epidemic or what is called as the seasonal cycles of infectious diseases.   Be it a vector born disease, water born disease, air or even food born, all such diseases certainly follow the norms of calendar of epidemic and then would disappear.   Certainly during epidemic, mortality bound to happen and the mortality is always directly proportional to the number of susceptible or vulnerable or ri...

India must ask what the country has achieved from such a prolonged lockdown with almost 98% stringency.   Whether fear projected possibly by the mathematical /statistical models created by the epidemiologists or the scientific understanding about the predictions and the ground realities that prevails in India has led to the lockdown is a millions dollar question.   If the lockdown was done more to prepare the logistics and other arsenals to deal the pandemic, then what is the logic and science behind going from lockdown 1.0 to 4.0….with shrunken duration?   The existence of the virus, the pandemic and the possibility of people dying due to the virus no one questions or demean however the complete science of the virus and its implications to human being are yet to get unravelled.   Many micro details about the virus and COVID 19 are still under ‘discussion’ or in an ‘understanding’ stage, behind the scene.   What is obviously happening at the glo...

The novel coronavirus might have gone crazy to a few medical specialities but at the same time the virus has also earned the status and tag of a ‘big joke’ to many, obviously due to the invisibility of both the virus and symptoms of viral infections (asymptomatic people)in about 85% of the population all over the world.   The lockdown measure taken by Modi has only strengthened the above sense of feeling among people.   Modi’s lockdown has killed the life and livelihood of many Indians than due to COVID 19 and the best example is the most painful and disgusting death of many impecunious migrant workers.   The migrant workers may not be Indians according to Modi government.   We must carefully analyse all the ground reasons for how a virus that has been described to be so deadly by the world can go as simple joke, at least to a reasonable fraction of our population in India?   Does that mean some people are utterly ignorant and insensitiv...

Since India is ‘tiredly’ running after COVID 19, may be with the understanding and conviction that India has to chase the novel coronavirus anywhere and everywhere and only then India can be saved.   Fie. Anyone turns positive for the viral RNA by RT-PCR even when they show no symptoms of the disease are immediately pushed inside the quarantine chamber and the entire area where such people may live is declared as containment zone thinking that that, it is the best way to prevent the viral spread. Do we know, when we prevent the virus to spread, the virus may shifts to ‘viral latency’, meaning the virus may take absolute holiday, will not be active until the onset of return the favourable condition.   The duration of latency period cannot be predicted easily because it depends on how long the virus may take to find a favourable condition to become active and other virus linked factors yet to be understood and studied.    Whether the novel coronavirus ...