Md Salim Shakur

Professor Md Salim Shakur PhD is Senior Consultant at the Department of Paediatrics at United Hospital Ltd.

Mass vaccination leading to herd immunity is our best chance

In a recent cross-sectional serosurvey conducted by icddr,b, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (widely known as coronavirus) from blood samples were found in 71 percent and 55 percent of Dhaka and Chattogram city-dwellers respectively (The Daily Star, June 23).

2y ago

How will the reopening of schools affect the pandemic?

Children are less commonly infected by Covid-19. When infected, they are less symptomatic and the development of the disease in their systems are less severe than adults infected with Covid-19. Symptoms, if present, are also nonspecific and resemble other non-Covid respiratory viruses, which creates a diagnostic dilemma.

3y ago
July 9, 2021
July 9, 2021

Mass vaccination leading to herd immunity is our best chance

In a recent cross-sectional serosurvey conducted by icddr,b, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (widely known as coronavirus) from blood samples were found in 71 percent and 55 percent of Dhaka and Chattogram city-dwellers respectively (The Daily Star, June 23).

September 30, 2020
September 30, 2020

How will the reopening of schools affect the pandemic?

Children are less commonly infected by Covid-19. When infected, they are less symptomatic and the development of the disease in their systems are less severe than adults infected with Covid-19. Symptoms, if present, are also nonspecific and resemble other non-Covid respiratory viruses, which creates a diagnostic dilemma.

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