Dr. Ramakanta

Don’t Chase the butterflies

Pandemic to Endemic and so on..

As I scanned through the daily covid-19 figures of our zone, I got a pleasant surprise. Even the new Covid-19 cases in the country has fallen below 10,000. Does it mean the present wave has come to an end ? There are too many caveats in this statement. Today Covid-19 has settled down to aContinue reading “Pandemic to Endemic and so on..”

Donation & Degree

Those were the days. In the year 1979, when we completed our Intermediate ( ~Plus 2), there were very few options for engineering aspirants of our batch. There were the 5 IITs and two State government engineering colleges: one REC at Rourkela and one at Burla ( Not yet UCE) in addition to our 3Continue reading “Donation & Degree”

Vaccination and R0

The basic aim of vaccination is to reduce the R naught (R0) factor of a pathogen. r k mahapatra R0 is a measure of transmissibility of the virus. It is always observed that whenever a new pathogen enters a closed community, say an isolated island, it rapidly infects a large number of the residents causingContinue reading “Vaccination and R0”

“Mr WATSON, COME HERE. I WANT YOU.”

It was a sultry afternoon.Boston, 10 March 1876. Thomas Watson was listening intently to the tuning fork sounds coming distantly from the closet of his boss TWO ROOMS APART. His boss had closeted himself two rooms away. A wire was connected between these two rooms. Assistant Watson was ordered to listen for any sound comingContinue reading ““Mr WATSON, COME HERE. I WANT YOU.””