When they were only half-way up, they were neither up nor down
June 6, 2021, 5:29 PM IST
Anoop Kohli is a senior consultant neurologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi. His interests go far beyond his chosen profession. For him, it's just one game of life so interesting to study for all its themes and aberrations. He also dabbles in script-writing and recently got a membership of the Bombay Film Writers' Association. In this blog, Masquerader, expect from him anything from H1N1 to Heena. LESS... MORE
A quasi sense of relief, in seeing a down trend in what was an un-earthy peak of mortalities, new cases, and stat economic ruin. Comparing the key indices, and Delhi the place of maximum suffering, May 7th was the peak. Though there were unprecedented efforts in gathering vaccines, other accessories (too long a list to be named), with the national inoculation variably quoted between 17-19 CR, remaining somewhat the same, the positivity rate from 10-12 %, has fallen to decimals. This one- month instant throwback in figures makes one wonder whether the agent mutated—-the much publicized 1.1.517, now unblemished as alfa, kappa, delta, or was there a cryptic mutation in the host. An immunological candour, in the realms of, but not exactly “herd immunity” . This aspect of adaptability in the absence of known extraneous agents perhaps can be an invaluable hypothesis, even a theory that may emanate from this mindless epidemic.