How did India beat the Delta variant?
>How did India beat the Delta variant?
Don’t know. Variant genome sequenced and identified in India Dec 2020.
Death spike on the graphs didn’t arrive until May. There are many reports the genome sequencing efforts identified mostly Delta and some Kappa in the infected population.
India began vaxing in January this year. They are over 50% now. IMPORTANT. The only vaccines approved there are Covaxin and Covashield. NEITHER OF THESE ARE PFIZER OR MODERNA.
Covaxin is conventional (non mRNA) vaccine developed in India. Covashield is Oxford - Astra Zeneca.
Their death peak was mid May and got to 4500-5000/day. It was in steep decline by late June.
Did vax do this? Absolutely no idea, though that will be the obvious claim. The US winter peak of early Jan 2020 and decline thereafter was before vaccines were present in the vulnerable population in any significant numbers, certainly not with 2 weeks between injections and then an additional 2 weeks after the 2nd before declared fully vaxed.
In other words, the US death peak and decline took place before the population was vaxed, and the India ramp up was after vaxing was in progress.
It’s very hard to analyze India because their weather is so varied region to region. Weather warming up in the US and people not huddling near their furnace could reduce infections, but in India in the same month they have snowfall in the north and beach temperatures in the south.