Pandemics

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Research Papers

Chinmay Tumbe, "Pandemics and Historical Mortality in India". 2020. IIMA Working Paper 2020-12-03. [Download]

"COVID mortality in India: National survey data and health facility deaths", 2022, Science, (with Prabhat Jha, Yashwant Deshmukh, Wilson Suraweera, Aditi Bhowmick, Sankalp Sharma, Paul Novosad, Sze Hang Fu, Leslie Newcombe, Hellen Gelband and Patrick Brown).

Teaching

Pandemics! for MBA students at IIM Ahmedabad, started in Jan 2020

Media Coverage

Book Launch via The Print: Video Link

Book Excerpt in Hindustan Times (Nov 20, 2020), Interview in Times of India (Nov 22, 2020), The Print (Nov 29, 2020), Live History India (March 3, 2021)

Book related interviews: Gulf News (Jun 9, 2021), IIMB Alumni Magazine L-Square (June 2021)

Comparing 1918 and 2021, at Emory University via Omnicuris platform (June 29, 2021)

Newspaper Articles

Article on 'The Urgent Need for a Mobility Lockdown' in Mint (May 3, 2021)

Article on Pandemics and Collective Memory in Times of India (May 8, 2021) & Navbharat Times (May 11, 2021)

Article on "Why we must count Covid dead" in Indian Express (May 26, 2021)

Interviews

Interview with Barkha Dutt: "Despair, Denial, Erasure: What History Tells Us" for Mojo Story (May 9, 2021)

Interview with Mitali Mukherjee: "Covid-19 and History", Business on The Wire (May 18, 2021)

Interview with Karan Thapar: A Million Deaths, Wire (June 1, 2021)

Interview with Govind Ethiraj: "Tackling Covid: Can learnings from past pandemics help?" , IndiaSpend (June 4, 2021)

Interview with Eenadu TV on India's pandemic death toll (June 22, 2021)

Twitter Threads

On 1918 Influenza in India (March 12, 2020), cited in Mint (Mar 13, 2020)
See my Migration Resource Page for Twitter threads on the Migration Crisis in 2020
Pandemic references in literary works on India (Dec 29, 2020)
How is India coping with respect to other countries? (Feb 16, 2021)
On vaccine supplies running short (April 7, 2021)
How bad can it get? (April 14, 2021)
On accounting Deaths-per-Day in India (April 21, 2021)
On Serum Institute's vaccine pricing policy (April 21, 2021)
On death under-reporting in 1918 (April 26, 2021)
Mobility Update up to April 30 (May 5, 2021)
On Bodies-in-Rivers in 1918 (May 10, 2021)
On Covid death under-reporting in India (May 26, 2021)
On Prashanam Survey of Covid Deaths (June 3, 2021)
On inter-state comparisons of Covid deaths per capita (June 14, 2021)
On Karnataka's excess mortality (June 14, 2021)
On four state's excess mortality (June 15, 2021)
On Tamil Nadu's district level mortality (June 21, 2021)
On Odisha's district level mortality (June 22, 2021)
On HMIS rural excess mortality (Jul 15, 2021)
On Prof. Mavalankar's pre-pandemic excess mortality studies (Jul 20, 2021)
On Vaccination: From Haffkine to Poonawalla (Sep 2, 2021)

Other Resources

Lancet Covid-19 India Taskforce