Murad Banaji
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Mumbai #COVID19 update. The epidemic refuses to die away. The city is still generating about 500 cases daily. That's almost 5% of the national total, and despite many restrictions still
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Another dubious claim in the Economic Survey 2020-21 backed up by a graph (Figure 10, Chapter 1). This claim is about testing. (With so many charts and graphs surely this
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My piece in The Wire on the third national serosurvey. The headline (~21% prevalence) is probably not a major underestimate. Apparently the antibody test used was less vulnerable to missing
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Chapter 1 of the Economic Survey 2020-21 (https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/economicsurvey/ ): a glowing report on the govt's handling of the COVID crisis, and a case study in what happens when science is abandoned
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#COVID19 in Mumbai. Some slides (mildly edited) from a talk at Nottingham (thanks to @NabilFadai for the invite). A summary in this longish thread. Main themes:- uneven spread (slums/non-slums)- uneven
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Delhi #COVID19 update. Looking at cases, Delhi - like Mumbai - is "stuck". Peak has passed, but there's been no clear descent for the past one month.Corrected test positivity is
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