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Online Continued Medical Education (Cme) Is Need Of The Hour

The world was caught off guards when Covid19 announced its arrival as a form of a pandemic across the globe within a month, inflicting mass casualties in developed countries as Europe and US after China unlike its 6 other disease in last 2 decades; from SARS (2002), Bird flu (2005), Swine flu (2009), MERS (2012), Ebola (2014), Nipah (2018) to the present SARSnCOVID (2019). While several novel lines of therapies are being tried out with encouraging results, the economic slowdown, logistics problems and casualties we have incurred by this highly infectious virus has been scary. Had it started in the developing world, probably it would not have received so much attention with the usual blame game by the west, eager for a respite with urgency. None is willing to invest in research on tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria, diarrhea or rabies, thinking beyond their narrow borders and the myopic vision. The medical professional’s world over is eager to find a definitive remedy and preventi...