• • Amitav Banerjee, Bhaskaran Raman
  • 24 Dec 2022

  Covid-19: What explains the sudden deaths?

  "While there is no cause for panic, reports of otherwise healthy people suddenly collapsing and dying do need to be investigated to determine if there is any correlation with vaccines or something else"
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 12 Nov 2022

  Covid-19 Vaccines And A Pandemic Of Fairytales

  "Did the mass vaccination rolled out in unholy haste in most countries reduce the incidence of cases and deaths from Covid-19 at the population level? The experiences of most countries are not very encouraging"
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 05 Nov 2022

  Chasing a deer in the forest

  "The Covid-19 pandemic triggered by the novel coronavirus, in its third year now, has some common themes running throughout its course. The foremost of these has been the uncertainty about almost all aspects of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2."
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 04 Oct 2022

  Eminence-based medicine vs. evidence-based medicine: All that glitters is not gold

  "In the present environment of high-pressure promotion of their products by the pharmaceutical industry, skills in appraising the evidence in published and promotional literature assume greater importance than ever."
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 09 Sep 2022

  Vaccination, Rising Deaths, And The False Narrative

  "Why has coronavirus vaccination status become an elephant in the room in such cases?"
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Priti Nandkishor Tiwari, Arvind Singh Kushwaha
  • 25 Jul 2022

  Hazards of vaccinating the way out of Covid-19 pandemic: Study of adverse events following immunization (Aefi) in India

  "Deaths reported by MOHFW are likely to represent gross underestimate of the real scenario in India."
  Author: Priti Nandkishor Tiwari, Arvind Singh Kushwaha, Department of Community Medicine, AIIMS Nagpur, India
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: "Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None"
  

• • Jay Ihsan
  • 22 Jul 2022

  Ignorance all the way for Malaysians?

  "Like many others the world over who rushed to get vaccinated against Covid- 19, most Malaysians too feel familiarity is no contempt when it comes to Covid- 19 vaccines and face masks."
  Author: Jay Ihsan, Malaysia
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  Conflict of interest: (statement pending)
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 12 Jul 2022

  Mapping the path of the Pandemic

  "To predict whether we will have a disastrous fourth wave, let us go back to fundamentals of transmission dynamics of communicable diseases which any epidemiologist who has worked at the ground level will know…"
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Bhaskaran Raman
  • 10 Jul 2022

  Covid, Jabs and Heart Attacks

  "Urgent need for impassionate look at the data involving heart-attacks along various dimensions: Covid status, vaccination status, age, gender"
  Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Bhaskaran Raman
  • 26 Jun 2022

  Flawed Modeling Study Plays Up Covid-19 Jab Impact

  "much of the critical parameters are based on assumptions which are known in the literature to be wrong"
  "the current jab impact model using the transmission model has grossly overestimated the number of lives saved by the jab rollout"
  "scientific evidence to substantiate a jab as life-saving should always be a rigorous randomized control trial"
  Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 04 Jun 2022

  Impact of Covid Vaccines at Population Level

  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 22 May 2022

  Quacks, Covid & Pharma

  "While quacks harm the individual, public health quackery can potentially damage the population"
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Dr Gayatri Panditrao
  • 26 May 2022

  Dissection of Covid Vaccination and its Homoeopathic Modus Operandi

  "Vaccination has been on the forefront as a preventive measure against covid infection. How is this prevention, far from reality?"
  Author: Dr Gayatri Panditrao, BHMS, PGDEMS, Homoeopathic Physician, Pune, India.
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  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 30 Apr 2022

  Germ Theory of Disease

  "So vaccines appear to be neither “necessary” nor “sufficient” to end the pandemic. But used judiciously it can still be a trusted companion for elderly and people with co-morbidities."
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 16 Apr 2022

  Vaccination jabs: Whither David to challenge the blind Goliath, WHO-pharma coalition?

  "Instead of focused protection of the non-immune, mass vaccination campaigns are being rolled out even in populations where over 80% have acquired natural immunity. The superiority of naturally acquired immunity (13 to 27 times more robust than vaccine induced immunity) was known since ages and confirmed in the pandemic as well."
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 11 Apr 2022

  Erasing Evidence Through Mass Vaccination Is A Criminal Offence: Top Epidemiologist

  "if we give the shot to all 7.9 billion people, then we will not have a ‘control group’ – the set of people in a comparative vaccine impact study who are tactically not given the shot or given only a placebo"
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 12 Mar 2022

  Geographical Statistics of death by COVID with vaccinations| Dr.Amitav Banerjee | #SangamTalks

  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 12 Mar 2022

  Take Home Messages From Global Statistics of COVID| Dr.Amitav Banerjee | #SangamTalks

  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 12 Mar 2022

  Strategies for prevention of COVID based on patterns | Dr.Amitav Banerjee | #SangamTalks

  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Amitav Banerjee
  • 20 Mar 2022

  Covid-19 mass vaccination – How much impact at population level?

  "Halfway into the year 2021, there was a sobering realization that the impact of the mass vaccination at the population level was modest if any."
  Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
  Disclaimer: link
  Conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest.
  

• • Arvind Singh Kushwaha, Sitikantha Banerjee
  • 06 Feb 2021

  Vaccination in controlling COVID pandemic in India: A SWOT analysis

  "The ambitious launch of COVID vaccination by India at the juncture of a declining pandemic needs to be discussed in relation to its timing, economic implications, and ramifications on public health. This article aims to analyze this vaccination strategy."
  Author: Dr Arvind Singh Kushwaha (Department of Community Medicine, AIIMS, Nagpur), Sitikantha Banerjee
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  Conflict of interest: "Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None"
  

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