COVID-19 Database - List of Websites

COVID-19 (COrona VIrus Disease-2019) is caused by SARS-CoV2, which was earlier known as by nCoV-19 (novel corona virus 2019), first outbreak seen in Wuhan city of China in December 2019. World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as pandemic in March 2020. 

It is a newly discovered RNA virus of Coronavirus group. The common coronavirus HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E do not cause much illness in humans.

Heritage Walk - Serampore (Part 3)

If you have jumped to this post, I would suggest to see Part 1, Part 2, Part 2A, Part 2B of Heritage Walk, Serampore. 

READ THE HERITAGE STORY OF SERAMPORE IN BENGALI WITH MORE DETAILS : শ্রীরামপুর : শুরুর কথা

This is the final part of my Serampore exploration, and by the end of Serampore we extended this trip to Seorafuli/Seoraphully which will be shared in a different post. In the 3rd part of the Serampore walk, the main attraction is Serampore Rajbari or Goswami Mansion, and this final part of the walk is more about us, the Indians. 

As we reach the auto/toto stand of the Ferry Ghat of Serampore, we are taking right turn to Goswami para and further Chatra area. Chatra and Mahesh - the north and south most areas of Serampore are famous for the Vaishnavism. 

Browser Issues: List of Solutions

What I find that my browsers are well customized to cater my needs and help me to do my work in a organized way. 

I am here sharing my top tricks/customerization with different browsers. 

And one thing, I do not use Chrome on desktop. 

Firefox

• Firefox does support 'session restore'

Tools (≣)  → General  → Startup  → Check ⊡ Restore previous session 

• There is another irritating thing happens to me while browsing on Firefox. I have one tab opened, and as I close it, the Firefox gets shut down instead of 'closing the tab & open a new tab'. Simple solution is to click on Home button instead of closing the tab. 

But the best solution is to go to about:config page to prevent closing the last tab from closing Firefox.

browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab = false 

Opera 

Bring back ''Tab Menu' from 'Search Tabs'

https://drrdb.blogspot.com/2020/03/bring-back-tab-menu-on-opera.html

This solution is no more working with further update. 

Recently Closed Tab - shortcut is Ctrl+Shft + T

These days 'Search Tabs' has been revised, you can directly see the list of closed Tabs by clicking on it. 

A primer to install Opera Portable and get best of it: 

https://drrdb.blogspot.com/2018/07/official-opera-portable-how-to-get-best.html

Old post, but still relevant to me..

opera://flags/#easy-files

Drugs being used in SARS-CoV2 induced COVID-19 Diseases v2.0

As we know already COVID-19 had been turned into a pandemic, as announced by WHO. Til August 31st, 2020 there is no cure drug against Covid-19. Vaccines against SARS-CoV2 could be best to tackle this viral disease. There are several drugs which are being used as 'may-work' drugs. The most annoying part for doctors and scientists is we are yet to understand the disease fully. The pathophysiology of COVID-19 is still under microscope, and there are some hypothesis which collectively may be true for this viral infection. Though viral pneumonia is the most common manifestation of this disease, it is multi-systemic hypercoagulatory & inflammatory disease, affecting lungs, hearts, vascular system, brain mostly. 

I wrote down this post on April 13th and updated til September 1st, 2020 and then abandoned that post due to several issues with Blogger format, and  therefore this is the new post.  

Notes regarding Laptop Buying

Though the time is for the smartphones, every week a new smartphone being launched by different companies. And in India there were several desi phone makers - though a handful survived the wrath of 4G and Jio, and rise of Chinese brands had came. Laptops and desktops had seen a fall of demand before 2020. But as COVID 19 pandemic striked, people are put into lockdown, WFH (work from home) regime has begun, the demand of laptops have been skyrocketed. 

I had a laptop bought in 2011 - Lenovo Z570 and it is heavy in today's term. I am looking for a light weight laptop with another 10 year of life. But I found out that taking a decision to buy a laptop is quite tough. (Dec 2020) 

My COVID Experience (April '20 to Dec '20)

My experience with COVID-19 started back in April, 2020. Before I am writing down my learning of COVID-19, let me address my work - I work as a ICU/CCU doctor. 

1. COVID-19 is REAL. But many of them are asymptomatic, i.e. very low exposure and no disease at all. 

2. COVID-19 has no cure as of now. But the scientists are working on it. 

3. COVID-19 diseases can be classified as asymptomatic, mild, moderate and severe diseases. The severe COVID-19 disease is dangerous and life threatening in most of the patients.   

I have got C19 in November '20, and the smell went off just like switching off the light. On Day 5 from the onset of fever, smell was gone, and restored nearly after 10-11 days partially. I am still not sure my smell got completely recovered. 

The point is if your smell is gone, it is most probably mild to moderate COVID. 

4. Oxygen is the main stay of treatment. You can call it standard care therapy. Ventilators can't save most of the patients, but high flow nasal oxygen @ upto 60L/min is better in my experience. 

Jio in a Hurry to Launch 5G in India - Threat from Satellite Internet?

Country's largest mobile operator Jio is planning to roll out 5G commercially in the second half of 2021, as Mukesh Ambani asked the government to make a policy ready for 5G in the event of India Mobile Congress 2020. But at the same time Sunil Mittal, the chairperson of Airtel, the 2nd largest mobile operator put forth his concerns with underdeveloped 5G ecosystem and exorbitant cost of 5G airwaves as set by GoI. Airtel will not spend money on 5G right now, though they will continue working with their technology and innovation partners for 5G. 

Jio, with tons of cash flow from recent investments across the globe is in a better financial shape and they can't wait to get their hands on 5G airwaves to be the pioneer of 5G in the country.