E-book on Coronavirus’ myths and evolution

Team L&M

An e-book on the history, evolution, facts and myths around coronavirus, before the subsequent release of its physical form in the market, was released recently. Available on e-commerce websites, the e-book — The Coronavirus: What you Need to Know about the Global Pandemic — has been has been written by Dr Swapneil Parikh, Maherra Desai and Dr Rajesh M Parikh and published under Penguin Random House’s imprint, Ebury Press.

A practicing Mumbai physician, Dr Swapneil Parikh is the co-founder of a healthcare start up. He has helped put together a team from IITs and IIMs along with start-up entrepreneurs to form a private citizen task force. This team is working on 3D printing ventilators and protective gear, data analysis to forecast the pandemic, telemedicine systems and decentralised testing. Co-author Dr Rajesh Parikh is the director of Medical Research and Honorary Neuropsychiatrist at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai and Maherra Desai is a clinical psychologist and medical researcher.