Posted on 07/23/2021 8:35:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two-third of Indians above the age of 6 had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, show findings of the fourth nationwide serological survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in June-July. The survey results also suggest that about 40 crore people or one-third of the country’s population is still vulnerable to the novel coronavirus.
The survey was conducted across the country in June and July. Its findings are significant because this is for the first time children aged 6-17 years were included in the national serosurvey. The results of the survey were released by DG, ICMR, Dr Balram Bhargava.
The survey was conducted in June and July, 2021 across 70 districts of 21 states. These are the same districts where three earlier rounds have been conducted during May-June (2020); August-September (2020); and December-January (2020-2021).
So, the latest findings of the survey suggest that two-third of the general population above 6 years have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, which means that two-third of Indians have been exposed to novel coronavirus. It also shows that one-third of the population does not have antibodies, which suggests that about 40 crore people are still vulnerable to the novel coronavirus.
“In conclusion, two-thirds of the general population that is above the age of six years had SARS-CoV-2 infection. More importantly, a third of the population did not have any antibodies… 40 crore population of this country is still vulnerable,” Bhargava said, addressing a press conference.
“States/districts/areas without antibodies run the risk of infection waves,” Bhargava said.
The survey also shows that sero-prevalence was similar in rural and urban areas. It also suggests that 85 per cent healthcare workers had antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.
I thought they were the Guardians now.
In the USA we are told that antibodies don’t protect you.
This must be a contributing factor in their allowing the Rays to have two come-from-behind wins in a row at Progressive Field. Nelson Cruz hit his first Rays HR tonight, but that didn't win the game for them, Ji-man Choi's 3-run blast did it.
Oh wait a minute...
Daniel Horowitz at the Blaze gave his interpretation of this Indian Survey:
The prevailing narrative from Fauci, Walensky, and company is that Delta is more serious than anything before, and even though vaccines are even less effective against it, its spread proves the need to vaccinate even more people. Unless we do that, we must return to the very effective lockdowns and masks. In reality, India’s experience proves the opposite true; namely:
1. Delta is largely an attenuated version, with a much lower fatality rate, that for most people is akin to a cold.
2. Masks failed to stop the spread there.
3. The country has come close to the herd immunity threshold with just 3% vaccinated.
4. Most people are now getting cold-like symptoms from Delta, but to the extent countries hit by Delta suffered some deaths and serious illness, they could have been avoided not with vaccines and masks, but with early and preventive treatment like ivermectin.
In other words, our government is learning all the wrong lessons from India, and now Israel and the U.K. Let’s unpack what we know occurred in India and now in some of the other countries experiencing a surge in cases of the Indian “Delta” variant.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently conducted a fourth nationwide serological test and found that 67.6% of those over 6 years old in June and July had antibodies, including 85% of health care workers. This is a sharp increase from the 24.1% level detected during the December-January study. What we can conclude definitively is that strict mask-wearing (especially among health care workers) failed to stop the spread one bit.
Yet now they have achieved herd immunity and burned out the virus with just 3% vaccination (now up to 6%) with roughly one-sixth the death rate of the U.S. and the U.K. and less than one-half that of Israel.
Immediately, naysayers will suggest that somehow India is vastly undercounting the deaths because it is a shabby third-world country. However, if we are to suggest that, it would mean that so much of the data from so many other countries we use for studies must be ignored. Also, it’s true that India is poor in some areas, but it is highly developed and has a very strong bureaucracy and administrative state throughout. There might be undercounting, but the notion that it can account for that wide a gap between India and the U.S./U.K. was always unlikely.
However, now that the Delta has spread to other countries like Israel and the U.K., we need not speculate who is right about India’s death rate. The fact that Israel and the U.K. have so many Delta cases yet so few deaths relative to the winter spread of the original strain demonstrates that Delta is likely much weaker and India’s numbers are probably close to accurate.
Remember, most of India’s spread, unlike in the West, occurred with Delta, long after the ancestral strain that hit the West was gone. If it really was the bloodbath some are suggesting (a tenfold undercount of deaths, in their estimation), why is the data from the U.K. showing just the opposite?
The latest data from the U.K. show that the case fatality rate for the Delta is just 0.2%, much less than the others. And we need not speculate with generalized studies. The raw data shows that since May 1, there have been approximately 1,300 deaths in the U.K. out of roughly 1.1 million confirmed cases. But those are confirmed cases.
The likely infection fatality rate is much lower because now more than ever, people are avoiding testing, and the U.K. media has been reporting for weeks that the symptoms of the Delta for most people appear more like a cold.
these people are tired of the ever-changing narrative. they just want freedom.
Murdoch media - news.com.au - not happy.
lots of short vids & twitter threads about Sydney and Melbourne protests; other Cities also participating:
24 July: news.com.au: Wild scenes as Sydney anti-lockdown protesters clash with police
Worrying video footage is emerging in Sydney of violent scenes erupting as thousands of anti-lockdown protesters take to the streets.
by Ben Graham
A crowd stretching as far as the eye can see is moving through the CBD towards Town Hall amid a massive police presence — some on the ground estimate there are as many as 15,000 people taking part in the march...
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/wild-scenes-as-sydney-antilockdown-protesters-clash-with-police/news-story/e5b47e5103e55a7c6ebd1eb6d0094a78
I too thought it had something to do with the Cleveland Indians.
That would be roughly 890 million people, yes?
Versus roughly half a million deaths?
Turns out it has to do instead with the sovereign nation henceforth known as Guardia.
I have my reservations.
This story with some videos of the Health Freedom protests is on my blog right now inside the Friday Newsdump summary....https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2021/07/news-summary-intelligence-report-friday_23.html
They’re not all dead?????????? I can’t believe it.
The hysteria is crazy. A friend had the new InduWuFlu and was told to take some Tylenol and NyQuil and that was that. All better now. Same for her husband. Within the last two weeks.
RE: I have my reservations.
Please elaborate some more.
RE: A friend had the new InduWuFlu and was told to take some Tylenol and NyQuil and that was that. All better now.
Yep, that’s the standard “treatment” the doctors tell you to take.
They do this hoping that you will ( like your friend ) fall in the 99.7% survivor’s category, not the 0.3% who will die.
Are indians immune to federal mandates?
Certainly not in Cleveland.
cool! These people are 6.72 times more protected than the jabbed.
Yep, cannot call them Indians anymore.
Melbourne, Australia - Freedom Day protest:
23 July: Tweet: Rachael Dexter, The Age newspaper (covid & climate alarmists, vax pushers)
Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters just outside Victorian Parliament right now.
@theage
VIDEO
https://twitter.com/rachael_dexter/status/1418772143366500352
Nextrush - just saw your link. thanx. FakeNewsMSM is going crazy. they are happy to have now found some violence to film. incredible to listen to MSM that were ok with BLM protests and climate disruptions which prevented ambulances getting people to hospitals now freaking out over the anti-lockdown marches.
of course, it’s ridiculous that Australia is locked down when it has had SIX alleged covid deaths THIS YEAR.
plus FIVE vax deaths.
if this can happen in Australia with such low numbers, it does not bode well for the rest of the world.
there are forces who want western economies in particular SHUT DOWN, including the climate MOB.
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