Daily Archives: 24/08/2020

Covid herd immunity

The two mega-cities of Mumbai and New Delhi (NCR) have been bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. However, in the last few weeks, it has become easier to find empty hospital beds and unused ventilators. This has led to euphoria and the hope that we might be seeing light at the end […]

CORONA UPDATE 11 TESTING FOR CORONA VIRUS

Compiled by Dr. Narendra Malhotra Corona is here to stay and it is predicted that over 70% of population will get the infection (fortunately not all will fall sick or very sick). (Recovery rate of over 74% & Death rate around 2%). A lot of confusion exists regarding testing for covid and what test to […]

*Covid management:*

*Nice compilation by KEM Mumbai*……… Released from KMC :: Once covid is diagnosed get a baseline CBP, LFT, RFT, CRP, d-Dimer, IL6 (if available), LDH, Ferritin, Trop-T, ECG, baseline CXR and CT chest. Ask for replication score in RT PCR test. It indicates how infective you are for other people. Any score above 25 is […]