Highlights Of Saluting The Covid Heroes Townhall With Amitabh Bachchan: An Initiative To Thank Covid Warriors For Their Selfless Service During The Pandemic

I think that the one thing that's clear is vaccinations are hugely important. It is very important as well to really shore up the medical infrastructure. This is going to take time. In the time when that is happening, as we prepare for the third wave, it's crucial to get ready. Now one of the things that we have realised is that in this sort of intermediate phase, there is a lot of information that is very confusing and it's not just about the vaccines - which is effective, which is not; which antivirals correct or not correct.  One of things we did therefore, and this is a real gap in public health is we realised that we need to put some money behind in actually coming up with some of those answers and we set aside about 25 million dollars in partnership with Yale, Harvard, with Cambridge University here at The London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine. Dr Guleria has been very involved with AIIMS in order to do research around how do you ensure we get ready around the science and behaviour and we understand what works and doesn't work so there can actually be you know, it's not an opinion, it's a fact.