Nikita Mishra

Comms| Ex Editor, Health @TheQuint.com |Ex CNN-IBN| Named #26 in the Top 100 Health & Fitness Influencers in the world by @Onalytica

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

Has any Prime Minister of India been shamed this much by international media before?

[Faheem Younus, MD @FaheemYounus]

COVID recovery takes 2-3 weeks

No need to repeat COVID test, labs, CAT scans unless worsening or hospitalized

80-90% patients recover at home without extra oxygen or antibiotics. Longterm effects not well defined...

Remember: If you’re not getting worse, you’re getting better

[Vikas Dandekar @VikasReports]

Natco seeks Emergency approval of #Molnupiravir capsules for Covid-19 treatment...Company says pre-clinical data shows molnupiravir has broad anti-influenza activity, including highly potent inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 replication

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

50 tweets pulled down. Ok, so the government is capable of eradicating something at least.

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

As a child of the sixties, I’ve seen every crisis, incl 3 full wars, food shortages, calamities. This is our biggest post-Partition crisis & never has India seen a Govt missing in action like this. No control rooms to call, nobody accountable to reach. It’s a governance rout.

[Swati Chaturvedi @bainjal]

Confirmed @Dev_Fadnavis nephew Tanmay Fadnavis did break the queue & get both his jabs. His grandmother Shobhatai is also a Bjp leader (dynasty) asks if it is a sin to get the vaccine. What a family of rule breakers

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Incredibly shocking if true.

So Fadnavis isn’t just hoarding & smuggling Remdesivir while the Modi govt denies it to Maharashtra.

His nephew allegedly gets vaccinated despite being ineligible while people of Maharashtra are denied vaccines by the BJP Central Govt.

Sickening.

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

First wave: impose the National Disaster Management Act, run things by executive decree for many months, put into place centralised systems of procurement and control.

Second wave: "Health is a state subject."

About as cynical as it gets.

[Nikita Mishra @nikitamishra]

Fascinating thread. And immunologic studies should definitely be carried out.

[Vincent Rajkumar @VincentRK]

India has 1.3 billion people.
4 times that of the US.

What’s going on is just amazing and needs in depth immunologic studies. These are raw numbers!

[Vin Nair "\V/" @vinsinners]

#kelloggs entered the Indian Market saying they will "change the breakfast habits of Indians" but look what's happened to them now.
India rocks! Lol!

[Nikita Mishra @nikitamishra]

Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine with 94% efficacy rate across age groups is just the news we need to turn 2020 around! But the vaccine has to be stored in -70 deg temp- whilst US/European countries with solid cold chain systems will do just fine, how will India fare in that dept?

[Naomi Datta @nowme_datta]

I actually don't mind paid trolls. It is a job. They do it. I feel bad for people who do it for free - like you didn't even make the cut as a lowlife. It is a bit sad.

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

I often tweet about states struggling so now, a wonderful success story:

New York

Doing 67,000 tests a day

Finding 670 cases a day

1% test positivity

This is South Korea level. And its awesome

Transmission levels so low NY can, with proper precautions, open schools safely

[Nikita Mishra @nikitamishra]

This is Hong Kong’s oldest bookshop. Running since 1918, Swindon, has incurred losses of more than HK$3.71 million in the #COVID19 pandemic. After more than 100 years in operation, the bookstore is shutting down for continuous unpaid rent.
So long! What a sad day.

[Nikita Mishra @nikitamishra]

Mentality.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

In a bizarre incident, an inspector kicked a man standing at the bank of Ganga river and watching a rescue operation in UP's Mirzapur district. The man, on the edge, fell as he lost balance after the sudden kick in the leg by the cop. @Uppolice

Via @Mirzapuriy

[Rujuta Diwekar @RujutaDiwekar]

When you grow up around women who worry about how finely the chutney is crushed and not how tiny they can get to squeeze into a dress, you grow up to be a liberated woman.

[barkha dutt @BDUTT]

Independent women in any profession need to stop reacting to other people's judgment of them. This includes, trolls, critics, fans, politicians and other women. We answer to ourselves. And ourselves alone. The more we react the more agency we hand over to others.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

When a brave young police officer stops a minister’s son and friends for violating curfew rules in Surat, she is transferred out. Now, Sunita Yadav has resigned. Is this how we treat law enforcers in corona times? Good night, shubhratri.. https://t.co/GvvTJPMRfp

[Abraar Karan @AbraarKaran]

Many sighs of relief that the president has finally worn a mask in public.

I am one of those.

For a second though, think about how unbelievable it is that it has taken this long—5 months, 137k+ deaths— for this to happen.

Our expectations of leaders have sunk that low.

[Nikita Mishra @nikitamishra]

@ShivAroor @WHO Please stop sensationalising, @ShivAroor. Bubonic plague has NEVER really been wiped-off since the Middle Ages. Not only is it endemic in some countries, there are 1-17 cases of it in US every year. Also, it’s not the 14th century anymore, it’s easily treated with antibiotics.