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19 May, 2020
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Preparing for a syndemic
By,Chirantan Chatterjee is a faculty member at IIM Ahmedabad and Visiting Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Introduction
The World Health Organization has announced that COVID-19 will likely never go away. Experts warn that there will be a second wave of infections.
Syndemic situation may arise
Meanwhile, some people have also raised the alarm about diseases like dengue and malaria in the upcoming monsoon season.
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A syndemic is a situation when two or more epidemics interact synergistically to produce an increased burden of disease in a population, a situation first described by medical anthropologist Merrill Singer in the mid-1990s.
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Increased burden of disease
The 1957 Asian influenza pandemic, for example, showed that deaths then could be not only due to the primary viral infection, but also due to secondary bacterial infections among influenza patients; in short, they were caused by a viral/bacterial syndemic.
Meanwhile, researchers have shown that in Kisumu, Kenya, 5% of HIV infections are due to higher HIV infectiousness of malaria-infected HIV patients.
Co-morbities
Some also say that we need to watch out for secondary bacterial infection in those with weakened immunity due to COVID-19.
Given that antibiotics resistance across the world is already a problem, the medical community needs to be aware of co-morbidities, especially if COVID-19 deepens as a syndemic in populations with antibiotic resistance.
Solutions
1. If that happens, along with large-scale population testing, societies around the world will also have to consider innovations in population health surveillance technology and develop creative business models at a scale potentially unheard of in recent times.
MIT alumnus Inder Singh’s startup, Kinsa, makes smart thermometers that are already making waves in the U.S. Many argue that Kinsa thermometers could be the key to constantly monitoring temperatures.
2. Another solution is to monitor oxygen levels in the brain daily through a pulse oximeter.
It turns out that COVID-19 is causing happy hypoxia, where lack of oxygen in the brain is going undetected till things become too late.
Way Ahead
Source: TH
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