Since the COVID-19 virus was discovered, the world has waited for a vaccine that would help our lives return to some level of normalcy. Now that vaccine distribution has begun, what will this “new normal” look like?
Here, University of Chicago experts explore what the vaccine rollout has revealed about our cities, and how it will impact our lives within them from our health care systems and businesses, to our educational and cultural institutions.
‘A complex gift’
“So the vaccine is a complex gift. It both gives you a sense that you are protected, but it ought not give you a sense that you’re free to do anything you want,” says Laurie Zoloth, a professor of religion and ethics at the Divinity School. “The fact that you have the vaccine means that you’ve accepted the gift, and the gift comes with some strings attached.
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Children at the Public Health Initiative in Karnataka, India. Researchers in India found that COVID-19 infections in the country, had been grossly underestimated and could be up to 95 times higher than the official numbers. Copyright: Trinity Care Foundation, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
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IDFC Institute, an economic development-focused think-tank in Mumbai. Malani conducts research in law and economics, development economics and health economics, and has been leading a series of Covid-19 serosurveys in cities and states across India with IDFC.
Based on seroprevalence data, IDFC has advised state governments on policy to control the spread of the disease, and now on vaccine allocations. He spoke to Rukmini S about innovations in collecting Covid-19 data in India, the limits of serosurveys, and how herd immunity thresholds for the disease can change.
Anup Malani, professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the university’s Pritzker School of Medicine. Photo credit: IDFC Institute via IndiaSpend
Updated Feb 13, 2021 | 11:34 IST
In the first round of the serosurvey done by the state government, as of September 16, 2020, two crore people were already infected. 31 million were affected by Covid in Karnataka by August, US study says | Photo Credit: IANS
Bengaluru: The state under-recorded Covid infections, a US analysis has claimed. An analysis done by researchers from Duke University in North Carolina, USA, said this.
According to the analysis, published in the February 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, 31 million people in the state were infected with Covid by August 29 2020. Karnataka’s official data put the total number of infections at 3.3 lakh as on the same day.