Category: Corona Special
Accelerated vaccine testing for covid-19
Conventional vaccine testing is a slow, years-long process. As thousands of people continue to die each day from COVID-19, bioethicist Nir Eyal proposes a radical idea that could dramatically accelerate the vaccine development timeline: “human challenge trials,” in which scientists would deliberately expose volunteers to the virus to...
Will People Listen To Science?Neil deGrasse Tyson On Coronavirus
America’s favorite astrophysicist, who hosts “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” on NatGeo, hopes that the public will pay attention to the information provided by professional scientists about the Coronavirus
Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about our ongoing failure to adequately respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about our ongoing failure to adequately respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss: the significance of asymptomatic spread the lack of Chinese cooperation the failures of testing travel restrictions the missteps of the FDA and the...
Coronavirus Townhall-Medicine & economics-NDTV24X7 (Quest corona special)
Dr Prannoy Roy and his panel of experts discuss what needs to be done to tackle the virus.His panel consists of 1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_Mukherjee. 2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gita_Gopinath, 3.Prof.Devi Sridhar https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/devi-sridhar 4.Dr.Lalita Ramakrishnan,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalita_Ramakrishnan and others
Yuval Noah Harari In Conversation | India Today e Conclave(Some saner voice at the time of corona)
Watch Yuval Noah Harari, Historian and futurist, in conversation with Rahul Kanwal at India Today on a session, Homo Sapiens after Coronavirus
BBC. Coronavirus-Everything you need to know(Quest special)
A panel of experts and BBC reporters around the world answer questions on the coronavirus outbreak.
Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-WHO release dated 31st Jan.2020(Quest corona special)
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in...
How to protect yourself against COVID-19-WHO(Quest corona special)
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new coronavirus introduced to humans for the first time. It is spread from person to person mainly through the droplets produced when an infected person speaks, coughs or sneezes.Watch this short animation to learn more about COVID-19 and how to...