Posted on 05/14/2021 9:54:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
With about 240 million people, India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh—with more people than all of Brazil—has seen a marked decrease in COVID-19 cases since instituting a population-wide ivermectin program. In just several days, the new cases have dropped from 33,531 on April 26, the apex of new daily cases recorded to 18,023 on May 12 based on data from Johns Hopkins University. Officials here know that transcending this crisis will involve therapeutics (population-wide ivermectin, etc.), behavioral and social measures (e.g. isolation for the sick when possible, masks, hand washing, plus more oxygen and supplies etc.), and targeted vaccination. Now for the latter situation, the state government prepares a large procurement of vaccines in an effort, again in combination with the other efforts, to not only control the spread of the virus but reduce the severity for those that eventually become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. Time is of the essence as the country is facing an unprecedented crisis with over 4,000 deaths for a second straight day with a health system on the complete edge. Interestingly, while the death rate in Uttar Pradesh appears to have peaked at 372 on May 7 (and now total daily deaths are on the decline), this is a small fraction of the total deaths in the nation despite its population size—the nation’s most populous. With local vaccine shortages reported, the state is prepared to spend up to $1 billion on vaccines and as part of that process, state officials now meet with representatives from various companies this week, including those from Pfizer for its mRNA-based vaccine and the local distributor of Sputnik V. Apparently, the state’s officials already had pre-bid discussions with local vaccine producers, including Serum Institute of India (licensee of AstraZeneca/Offord as well as Novavax vaccines), Bharat Biotech, and Cadila Healthcare as part of another tender to buy 40 million doses in the next few months. It appears that none of the Chinese vaccine firms were invited to the bid.
So, apparently, the Indian government is positioning a large tender, meaning some kind of competitive bid process rather than, say, selecting what they consider to be the top three candidates and work to negotiate a deal directly. With a population larger than that of Brazil at about 240 million, a senior state official Navneet Sehgal shared with Reuters that “Money is not an issue, we have a huge budget,” noting, “We will spend up to 100 billion rupees ($1.36 billion)” on the vaccines as reported in Healthworld.
While the Indian press is announcing big vaccine procurements, what’s not being reported is a dramatic turnaround in the COVID-19 crisis here in the north of India.
The state issued an aggressive population-wide ivermectin home health program that appears to be working well. As reported by TrialSite, Ivermectin was included in the national COVID-19 treatment guidelines by April 22, 2021, and shortly after TrialSite shared Uttar Pradesh had instituted the population-wide ivermectin-based program.
What’s the impact? The spike of new cases in a day at 33,531 occurred on April 26. Since then, there’s been a steady decline, and while TrialSite cannot prove that ivermectin is the direct cause of this decline, it’s certainly the case that the decline corresponds with the mass ivermectin program.
By May 9, the new cases were down to 23,175 in one day and just days later on May 12, the estimated count was 18, 023. Since the state instituted the Ivermectin program, a steep, precipitous drop in COVID-19 cases has been recorded according to data from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Moreover, the death tolls, which have been lower here many argue because Ivermectin was already available to the population via a public health scheme, is now on the wane. As of May 12, while Uttar Pradesh represents about 17% of India’s total population, its 277 deaths represented 6.9% of the total deaths in India at 4,033.
Of course, here, Ivermectin is part of a therapeutic regimen needed to help contain the contagion, and the combination of other behavioral measures (e.g. isolation, masks, handwashing, etc.) plus vaccination is necessary to help society beat COVID-19 once and for all.
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Yeah right. Do 25 different things so EVERYONE can take credit!
Or should I say, the RIGHT people, (Ivermectin), (see also Hydroxychloroquine) DON’T get the credit.
Related:
Odisha to buy 7.2 lakh Ivermectin tablets to cater to needs of Covid-19 patients in home isolation
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/odisha-to-buy-7-2-lakh-ivermectin-tablets-to-cater-to-needs-of-covid-19-patients-in-home-isolation/articleshow/82570387.cms
That 720,000 tablets, enough for a cycle for 240,000 people.
Indian state, has a population of 42,000,000. I think they’ll need more.
Seems that finally some authorities are getting it right. They had ivermectin on hand, and as the epidemiological data are showing, at least at a population level, it’s working to reduce both transmission and severity of symptoms, keeping people out of the hospitals and alive.
Now they have a minute to turn to vaccination as well.
There should be no competition between therapeutics and vaccinations. Both are needed.
Now if the rest of the world could pay attention, that would be great.
Expect a wave of Ganges Injuns to invade the country soon.
Where is FaucI?
Yes, HCQ works.
Yes, Ivermectin works.
(My 95 years old father got remarkable improvemnt in 4 days. He was symptom free from there on. He died 3 months later, but not of Covid.
The thing I find most interesting throughout this entire bullshit communist plot is that nobody’s talking about silver
Silver the silver ions in solution kills all viruses and all bacteria
This is been around for thousands of years and I have been making silver in my kitchen every day for 30 something years now and my kids and wife and I have never ever been sick
Silver is in 20 to 30,000 medical products all of which are approved by the FDA for exactly this purpose. ANTIBACTERIAL ANTIFUNGAL ANTIVIRAL
Much of this knowledge came from India and the Indians from India have known about silver for thousands of years
The evil government and their vaccine industry evil minions have been actively trying to squash any form of treatment whether it be in Intervectin hydroxychloroquine vitamin D Regeneron or any of a host of other good critical ways to fight this and other viruses
You will notice that President Trump was way out in front stating the incredible nature of all of these. Treatments and. Cures
The government is only interested in THEM providing you with answers to YOUR HEALTH
In order to be cured for any disease - you’re supposed to only go to your doctor for answers
You are never supposed to find your own answers for your own health
The fact that there’s been a complete and utter black out on the facts about silver is stunning that we’ve gone through a year and a half of this and it doesn’t even get mentioned
To your health and well being FREEPERS !
Truth over power. Always
Very interesting. I recall reading here the original story about the Indian state instituting mass ivermectin use. I don’t know what compliance rates may be since that’s a lot of people to serve, a lot of pills to produce. But it’s encouraging.
RE: Expect a wave of Ganges Injuns to invade the country soon.
It has been reported that the bulk of the infections in the state of Uttar Pradesh came when most of the workers from this state who went to the big city of Mumbai for jobs had to come back when the huge Covid wave hit Mumbai. Mumbai, by the way, has NOT authorized the mass distribution of Ivermectin.
To escape the lockdown and because they could not work as a result, millions of Uttar Pradeshians went back home ( many of them already infected ).
It has been reported that the bulk of the infections in the state of Uttar Pradesh came when most of the workers from this state who went to the big city of Mumbai for jobs had to come back when the huge Covid wave hit Mumbai. Mumbai, by the way, has NOT authorized the mass distribution of Ivermectin.
To escape the lockdown and because they could not work as a result, millions of Uttar Pradeshians went back home ( many of them already infected ).
Interesting. I recall hearing over a year ago basically a similar story about China and Wuhan, that it is customary for rural people to seek work in the city (Wuhan) and then go home for the 2-3 week Chinese (Lunar) New Year... which caused the spread throughout China to accelerate. Saw pictures of bodies laying on farms and in rivers etc. Can’t certainly attribute those photos to this story but I definitely remember reading and seeing them.
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