Health Policies
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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So if the virus was circulating in different parts of the world in Sep/Oct 2019 without anyone noticing, can it really be termed as “novel and dangerous?”
Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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The Supreme Court should therefore do the right thing and ask the relevant authorities such as the ICMR and the vaccine manufacturers for the completed trial results.
Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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"Ultimately, we must revisit and implement the Bhore Committee’s recommendations. This task is neither glamorous nor lucrative compared to promoting medical tourism, high-rise hospitals, and pharmaceutical products."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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Authors: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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Authors: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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"What is more worrying is that this may be just the tip of the iceberg, and the medical admission mafia may have spread across the country with the involvement of many powerful players."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"This controversy... should be a wakeup call for Indian pharma companies as well as the regulators"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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Authors: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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"Decades of neglect and a shift towards privatisation have left India’s healthcare system riddled with inequities. Despite efforts like Ayushman Bharat, corruption and inefficiency continue to plague public health initiatives, leaving millions without adequate care"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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Authors: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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Authors: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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"Improvement in standards of living among the affluent can prevent communicable diseases. But vaccines play a key role among disadvantaged constituencies to help them tide over medical crises"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Unfortunately, the numbers found in the GBD are often not hard data, but estimates or educated guesses, based on whatever data is available particularly in poorer countries of Africa and Asia"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"All the authorities and celebrities who promoted the unscientific and risky measures like lockdowns and mass vaccinations with experimental vaccines should also be held accountable and tried in a fair manner without fear, favor or prejudice"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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Authors: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
Dr. Gayatri Panditrao, BHMS, PGDEMS, Pune
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"Will the promise of the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer hold good 4 decades down the line?"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Union Budget pushed for HPV vaccine for girls aged 9 to 14 years when average age of getting cervical cancer is 50 years"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Medical imperialism has overtaken military imperialism. It is driven by the pharma race, which is more profitable than arms race"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"We should approach present and subsequent mutants as we do with the common cold, taking them in our stride"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Thousands of mutating pathogens exist in nature. Chasing them with vaccines is like chasing deers and cheetahs in the forest"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & former-Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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Author: Govt. of Kerala
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"Recent reports about tribal deaths due to malnutrition and lack of medical care facilities point fingers to things to improve in Kerala"
Author: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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"What actually happened on the ground seems to completely contradict what has been disseminated and publicized through mainstream media."
Author: Vratesh Srivastava, Analytics Professional
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"...amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) of the World Health Organization (WHO)...will make the signatories surrender their autonomy to the “unelected, unaccountable and the whimsical WHO in case of any future ‘pandemics’.”"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Activists write to Bharat's health minister and WHO chief in protest over proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"The Pandemic Treaty promises to wreck the world of healthcare and human rights."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"As we recently celebrated Children’s Day, we must seek accountability for largest mass violation of child rights since World War-2"
Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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"In view of the critical need for a robust pharmacovigilance system and stringent drug regulations,
it’s time to revamp India’s drug regulatory system, prioritise safety aspect in healthcare, and unite
all stakeholders."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"The treaty has serious implications for the Global South, the pharma industry, sovereignty, democracy,
and health administration"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Owner of an estate in Greek mythology, Procrustes had an iron bed on which he tied, tortured and made
the traveller to fit the bed to perfection"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"If he blows trumpet, people of India will join him with banging of thalis, lighting of diyas to drive
away dark IHR amendments"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Anthony Fauci retired long back. But his brand of medical dictatorship continues."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"We have entered an era of commercial movies instead of serious science on matter of health and disease
glossing over uncomfortable truths"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"The developments, which appear to be driven by the interests of the pharmaceutical industry in the
name of bringing prices down, will further strain the fragile doctor-patient relationship"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"A health policy maker in the WHO or the ICMR has more conflicts of interest than a hundred doctors
with stethoscopes"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Did the National Medical Commission (NMC) think through the consequences of its new prescription
code?"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"This paper analyzes data from the alleged measles outbreak of Samoa in 2019, and questions the
official narrative that low vaccination rates led to the outbreak and deaths."
Author: Vratesh Srivastava, Analytics Professional
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"Amendments without any logic or science, rushed through to favour commerce and industry for political
gains, will harm the people of India in the long run"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"The epidemiology of diabetes in India is unique. The determinants are both “nature” and “nurture,”
against the background of malnutrition at both ends of the life course…."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Disease dynamics are far more complex. The ham-handed approach of One World, One Health will ruin
human lives"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Just as posterity is not judging the perpetrators of “Emergency” kindly, it will not judge our present
political leaders kindly if they fail to save democracy from the “power grab” of the WHO."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"We have other unidentified “pandemics” in our own country such as dengue, typhoid, Japanese
Encephalitis, and so on which we cannot quantify as data keeping of these “mundane” diseases have no
glamour and therefore not carried out with the same gusto as any “new and deadlier pandemic” imported
from abroad."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"These are sweeping statements which are speculative on the political issues and bad science as well as
the estimates of Covid-19 deaths by World Health Organization (WHO) are inferred from dubious
mathematical models rather than hard population level data."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"a growing number of questions have been raised by medical experts, activists, and critical-thinking
people in relation to the Covid-19 narrative"
Authors: Dr. Gayatri Panditrao, BHMS, PGDEMS, Pune
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"a growing number of questions have been raised by medical experts, activists, and critical-thinking
people in relation to the Covid-19 narrative"
Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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"The greatest harm was inflicted on schoolchildren. Early into the pandemic, data indicated that
keeping schools open had little adverse impact on the health and well-being of children as well as their
teachers."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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Author: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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"The existing evidence does not support the inclusion of the HPV vaccine in the national immunisation
programme. It would be a wasteful expenditure of public funds with uncertain benefits."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"और लॉकडाउन व सामाजिक दूरी जैसे अंधाधुंध कदम, किसी प्रभाव के प्रमाण के अभाव में, निर्धनों के लिए अधिक
कष्टों व आर्थिक हानियों की वजह बनते हैं।"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"The increasing level of poor air quality becomes a global warming and threat of emerging and
re-emerging disease…"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"The current scenario of Covid-19 in all over the world is like fix eyes on the ball and this bouncer
will pass by harmlessly..."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"A human rights approach to health, making it a fundamental right, can ensure equity and justice in
access to healthcare."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"In the earlier phase of the pandemic, the “test, trace, isolate” mantra hardly made any dent on the
spread of the infection.
Futile chase of a fast-mutating virus with low lethality should be abandoned. Mindless restrictive
measures such as lockdowns
and social distancing, without evidence of efficacy, causes misery and economic setbacks to the
poor."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"For the last 2.5 years, Gov Of India implemented Five-Fold Strategy which has failed to deliver
results as per the reasons explained."
Authors: Dr. Gayatri Panditrao, BHMS, PGDEMS, Pune
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Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"The next generation must know that societal damage in the name of Covid-19 response was NEVER
justified - it was made possible via Math Murder"
Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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2022: more mortality, no fear
2020: lesser mortality, apocalyptic panic
Implication: fear in 2020 was not based on observed reality, but on manufactured
fear
Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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"Whereas the infection is reported to occur between 26 to 35 years of age in India and the
antibodies/protection is expected to last for 6 to 7 years, we want to give at 9 to 15 years of
age."
"Whereas the previous approval is subject to SC decision, the approval is being trumpeted as soon as the
drug is produced."
Author: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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"Monkey pox, which is more common in children in its native Africa, is showing a different epidemiology
outside this continent. The surveillance data from the west suggests that it is behaving more like a
sexually transmitted disease like HIV and other sexually transmitted infections."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Dr. Anthony Fauci, by his various acts of omissions and commissions, had a major role to play in the
clumsy, inefficient, and unscientific manner in which the coronavirus pandemic was handled, causing so
much misery and despair due to the loss of lives and livelihoods."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"a list of incisive questions that we believe the WHO and its chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus should
answer at once... questions are unanswered, and they come in the backdrop of the damage the pandemic and
its aftermath have caused."
Author: Arvind Singh Kushwaha, Department of Community Medicine, AIIMS Nagpur, India
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"It remains to be seen how the judiciary rises to the occasion to defend the citizen against the most
blatant attack on fundamental rights, cloaked under the guise of managing public health
emergency."
Author: Dr Gautam Das, MBBS, Physician, A member of GRAPH (Global Rational Alliance for Public
Health), Kolkata
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"For countries like India, handing over the reins of public health responses to the WHO in case of
pandemics declared according to the whims and fancies of this discredited body would be suicidal"
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"a Referendum has to be taken to know the will of WE The People of India"
Authors: Dr Maya Valecha, Dr Amitav Banerjee, Dr Arvind Kushwaha
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'The Bill is aligned with the proposed Pandemic Treaty by WHO. This unholy alliance has the potential
to assume, "absolute power", which "corrupts absolutely."'
Authors: Dr Amitav Banerjee
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Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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"Health system today needs serious introspection. Are we really healthy? Is our health still in our own
hands?"
Author: Dr Gayatri Panditrao, BHMS, PGDEMS, Homoeopathic Physician, Pune, India.
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"Management of pandemics should be done by local experts who have insight of the epidemiological
nuances of the region. So having blanket treaties is not fair to the WHO or to countries facing
pandemics differently in different regions."
Author: Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD, Clinical Epidemiologist. Prof & Head, Community Medicine, Dr
DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India.
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'Biggest mistake in the pandemic was to practice "One size fits all strategy" while stratified approach
is the right way'
Author: Dr Arvind Singh Kushwaha (Department of Community Medicine, AIIMS, Nagpur, India)
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Author: Dr Maya Valecha, MD, DGO, Vadodara, Gujarat
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"it is extremely important for doctors, nurses and medical practitioners of all kinds to team up with
civil liberties organizations in India to withstand the tsunami of medical imprisonment that is being
planned, as it is only through coordinated efforts that successes can be obtained"
Author: Gopi Krishna Vijaya, PhD
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"When the mainstream narrative refuses to acknowledge known science and known data, trust is lost. This
adds to the reason for people who do not want the jab to be skeptical about the excessive push for the
same."
“there must be honesty on the part of the scientific community in acknowledging both the unknowns
surrounding the jabs as well as known science behind natural immunity and low-risk groups”
Author: Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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