The Trouble With Vax-Pax-Unmask

Deepti Pradhan
6 min readMay 18, 2022

Despite massive global data gaps, it is generally accepted that more than 6.3 million of 7.7 billion people have died as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic — that’s more than 0.08% of humanity lost to a single global event.

When SARS-CoV-2 hit the world in 2019, saying we were ill-prepared for it would be an understatement. Today, we have vaccines, medications, and non-pharmaceutical interventions like…

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)