Tag Archives: COVID-19
Don’t Write Off the Bat
It was a perfect evening for a spin in the Batmobile with a team of three amateur chiroptologists. The air was warm and still when the sun went down. After leaving the carpark, we were overtaken by every vehicle along … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged ACE-2, Batmobile, Big brown bat, Chiroptera, coronavirus, COVID-19, Red bat, SonoBat, White-nose syndrome
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Pepysing back at the 1665-66 plague of London
I aimed for a weekly post about the health of the natural world, but here I am dwelling on coronavirus again. Is anyone undistracted by this pandemic? This time I dusted off my copies of Samuel Pepys diaries in which … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Health, History
Tagged Black Death, coronavirus, COVID-19, Eyam church, Great fire, London, plague, Samuel Pepys
Latent impact of COVID-19 in pregnancy?
There was a time when the womb was regarded as a pristine environment for a ‘fetonaut’ to travel safely for 9 months until birth, protected by a shield-like placenta. No longer. The effects of smoking, thalidomide and binge drinking show … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, flu pandemic, Great Recession
A Day in Dharavi
That day slept in deep memory until Dharavi appeared in news reports about the threat of COVID-19. It wasn’t a Westerner’s curiosity about the plight of poor people that brought me in 2003 after an engagement in Mumbai; it was … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Memoir
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, dengue fever, Dharavi slum, Mumbai, rickshaw
