The Moving Curve

In this episode, bio-ethicist Dr. Anant Bhan joins me to explain the issues around the granting of approvals to the two vaccines in India's national programme.

In this episode, legendary virologist Dr Gagandep Kang joins me to talk about her concerns over ongoing vaccine trials and vaccine deployment in India.

In this episode, PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan, an elected representative from Madurai in Tamil Nadu joins me to talk about what it's like being a people's servant in these times, balancing a political career with considerations of safety.

In this episode, the leading bio-statistician Dr Bhramar Mukherjee joins me as we look back on her early modelling of the pandemic and my reporting of it

Mathematician Murad Banaji joins me in this episode to discuss what we do not yet know about whom covid has affected in India, and how we could fill in the gaps in our knowledge.

In this episode, Prof. Sandeep Juneja, professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, joins me to walk me through the Mumbai sero-surveys, and how to combine indicators to get a real sense of the picture on the ground.

In this episode, Dr Manoj Murhekar, the director of the National Institute of Epidemiology, and the lead author of the ICMR's sero-surveys joins me to talk about where the virus goes from here.

Dr Arun N Madhavan, a doctor from Palakkad, and a team of collaborators, are painstakingly compiling records of every covid death in Kerala to expose the extent of under-reporting. It's a model for other states.

Prof. Gautam Menon, professor of biology and physics at Ashoka University, and an infectious disease modeller joins me to talk about the plausible explanations for why India saw a peak in mid-September and a subsequent decline in cases.

In this episode, I speak to Shreya Raman, a young woman who lost her father to covid.