Ep#7 | Bangla Podcast | Dr. Kunal Sarkar | Covid-19, Policies and Politics

Dr. Kunal Sarkar talks with Pratyay and Srinjoy about Covid-19's most striking experiences as a health professional, the background of lab-made theory, pertinent policies and politics around it.

A few relevant links:

• Dr. Sarkar’s upcoming book: The Sickness of Health https://www.patrabharati.com/shop/the-sickness-of-health/

• The COVID lab-leak hypothesis (Nature article) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3

• New York Times article about denial of Covid-19 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html

• Nicholas Wade’s article on origin of Covid-19 https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/

• Effect of health insurance program for the poor on out-of-pocket inpatient care cost in India: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-020-05692-7#:~:text=In%20India%2C%20Out%2Dof%2D,%2Dof%2Dpocket%20health%20expenditures.

• Prof. Abhijit Banerjee’s talk on demonetization https://youtu.be/tk-JJXWPd2Y

• The Coffee House Experience#1 with Anujit Chakroborty (economist) https://youtu.be/iVFFRGgSMcI

• Article on America’s healthcare https://www.healthline.com/health-news/america-first-not-in-healthcare-not-even-close

• Bernie Sanders’ policy on universal healthcare in the US https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/

• Article on India’s recent record vaccination (Scroll) https://scroll.in/article/998156/how-bjp-ruled-states-engineered-a-new-world-record-for-vaccinations

• Prescription drug price in the USA is twice as high, why? https://scroll.in/article/998156/how-bjp-ruled-states-engineered-a-new-world-record-for-vaccinations

• Peter Principle (wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle