Part 2 of a 3-Part Interview With Dr. Arijit Chakravarty, "5 Years of the COVID Pandemic" AC : Cancers were rising before SAR-CoV-2 showed up. In the 2010s, cancer rates were rising among young people. This can distort the signal caused by SARS-CoV-2 infections. If SARS-CoV-2 causes cancers to increase, if it is carcinogenic, it’ll take a big increase in that rate of cancer before people acknowledge that SARS-CoV-2 is now a contributing factor. Similarly, heart disease rates were rising...

Part 1 of a 3-Part Interview With Dr. Arijit Chakravarty, "5 Years of the COVID Pandemic" Dr. Arijit Chakravarty is the CEO of Fractal Therapeutics, a science services company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that “offers model-based drug discovery and developmental services that help make drug R&D more efficient.” When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a global threat in early 2020, the company decided to employ its modeling expertise in “building a clearer understanding of the...

Part 3 of a 3-Part Interview With Dr. Arijit Chakravarty, "5 Years of the COVID Pandemic" What I find remarkable is not that [the Avian Flu] pandemic is imminent . It is that they have created conditions that make a pandemic not only plausible, but likely. BM : Rather than enhancing our public health posture and scientific understanding of diseases, there’s been the opposite effect through growing vaccine hesitancy, mistrust of science, cavalier attitudes towards infections and diseases and...