Posted on 09/05/2020 4:30:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
With a population of nearly 1.4 billion people, India's massive caseload does not surprise experts. The country's delayed response to the virus forced the government to implement a harsh lockdown in late March. For more than two months, the economy remained shuttered, buying time for the underfunded healthcare system to prepare for the worst.
But with the economic cost of the restrictions rising, authorities saw no choice but to reopen activities.
In rural Maharashtra, the worst-affected state with 863,062 cases and 25,964 deaths, doctors said measures like wearing masks and washing hands had now largely been abandoned.
"There is a behavioural fatigue now setting in," said Dr SP Kalantri, the director of a hospital in the village of Sevagram.
He said the past few weeks had driven home the point that the virus had moved from India's cities to its villages.
"The worst is yet to come," said Kalantri. "There is no light at the end of the tunnel."
Even as testing in India has increased to more than a million a day, a growing reliance on screening for antigens or viral proteins is creating more problems.
These tests are cheaper and yield faster results but are not as accurate. The danger is that the tests may falsely clear many who are infected with COVID-19.
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You didn’t comment on your own post. What’s your point in posting it? We’ll all going to die?
India is one of the dirtiest countries on the planet and very overpopulated. I’d lay odds that people there have built up a lot of resistance to any disease.
Nope, only the chronically grammatically challenged ones.
Gee, China hates India, India the last to get da Corona. hmmm
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Higher cases is a good thing right? Means the human population is whipping the virus.
I usually don’t comment on articles I post. Figure it gives other FReepers a chance to rant, opine, joke, or inspire.
Number of cases is meaningless. Remember the Covid test on the Pawpaw fruit and the goat? Both came back Positive. Sadly, it is deaths per x number of people, rising or falling that matters. Elderly with other medical conditions are the most vulnerable.
And no flight restrictions. The cheap Indian Labor Express is stronger than needs for American safety.
I noticed that the nations that are the China’s greatest economic adversaries are the hardest hit. India, Mexico, Brazil, the US. Coincidence? Nope.
70K out of over a billion dead in India of the ‘rona.
I wonder how many people in India wished the numbers were this good when it comes to TB.
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