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Coronavirus: Is the epidemic finally coming to an end in India?
BBC ^ | 2.14.2021 | Soutik Biswas

Posted on 02/15/2021 8:44:46 PM PST by libh8er

Is the epidemic firmly in retreat in a country where many early modellers had predicted millions of deaths due to Covid-19?

... By the middle of last week, India was barely counting an average of 10,000 Covid cases every day. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths from the disease slid to below 100. More than half of India's states were not reporting any Covid deaths. On Tuesday, Delhi, once an infection hotspot, did not record a single Covid death, for the first time in 10 months.

So far, India has recorded more than 10 million infections - the second-highest in the world after the US. There have been over 150,000 reported deaths from the disease. The number of deaths per million people stands at 112, much lower than what has been reported in Europe or North America. It is also clear that the decline in cases is not because of lower testing. ...

"We still don't have causal explanations. But we do know India as a nation is far from herd immunity," says Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan who has been closely tracking the pandemic. Herd immunity happens when a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease through vaccination or through the mass spread of the disease.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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KEYWORDS: covid; india
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1 posted on 02/15/2021 8:44:46 PM PST by libh8er
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To: libh8er

This is great news, as India would not likely time a drop in reported cases/deaths to a Zhou Bai Den benefit.

It’s essential to find out what they are doing that Europe, North America and South America aren’t doing. Indians are part of the Caucasian group, so it’s not just good genes - plausible if only Chinese had lower mortality.

Lack of obesity helps, but this is a change in rates of infection and mortality. Sunlight and diet are factors, but again, these were present while India’s numbers were much higher.


2 posted on 02/15/2021 9:02:07 PM PST by bIlluminati (Demonetize the Left. Buy nothing from them. Sell nothing to them. Shun them.)
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To: libh8er

India cheated by using Ivermectin. If they played by Western rules they would have more people infected there than anywhere else in the world.


3 posted on 02/15/2021 9:13:51 PM PST by BobL
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To: bIlluminati

CONSIDER THESE NEWS COMING OUT OF INDIA AND MAYBE WE CAN SEE WHY INDIA IS SUCCESSFULLY BATTLING COVID-19:

73 Percent Decline In COVID-19 Incidences With Prophylactic Use Of Ivermectin: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Reports

India's Lucknow district administration to set up kiosks for distribution of Ivermectin tablets for Covid-19 patients

FROM THE HINDU: ‘Quadruple Therapy with Ivermectin is effective in treating COVID-19’

THE TIMES OF INDIA: Ivermectin can prevent Covid spread, claims AIIMS study

India: An Unlikely Developing Nation Is Kicking This Pandemic. Why?

Did you Hear about the ZIVERDO Therapy for COVID-19? The inexpensive first line treatment for COVID-19 positive patients in India.
4 posted on 02/15/2021 9:14:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: libh8er

Simple explanation moron,,,,,they give away Ivermectin at State Kiosks to anyone with a cough and a high fever.


5 posted on 02/15/2021 9:18:29 PM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: bIlluminati

Massive and widespread use of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.


6 posted on 02/15/2021 9:29:25 PM PST by CMAC51
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its coming to an end here...new cases dropping by 10,000 a day..50,000 today..in 5 days...zero. Even the doctor on CNN tonight said hes seeing signs of herd immunity...


7 posted on 02/15/2021 9:44:26 PM PST by basalt
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To: chopperk

Another happy side effect for the Indians is they will reduce the number of people with internal parasites. That may be no small number of people in India.


8 posted on 02/15/2021 9:53:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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To: libh8er

Oh, yes...well, let’s minimize the dichotomy of India’s masking and the reality of antibodies in 60% of their population IN SPITE OF MASKING. Dumbasses.

Push the ‘vaccines’: It’s a moral imperative. /s


9 posted on 02/15/2021 10:01:45 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: basalt

“its coming to an end here...new cases dropping by 10,000 a day..50,000 today..in 5 days...zero”

What a miracle. Biden takes office and overnight the Covid numbers start crashing.


10 posted on 02/15/2021 10:16:59 PM PST by libh8er
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To: libh8er

India is such a polluted, filthy stinkhole of a country, coronavirus didn’t stand a chance there.


11 posted on 02/16/2021 1:43:39 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: libh8er

I’ve been posting about India in my cheap therapeutics text block for weeks. It has been obvious that India is doing something right for months.

Text block:

IANAD or public health professional, but my understanding is that technically, the vaccines are not “approved”, but rather have “emergency use authorizations.” These EUAs could only be granted if there were no available effective therapeutics. So the FedGov public health establishment had to refuse to recognize the efficacy of HCQ and Ivermectin-based therapies in order to be able to grant those EUAs. By doing this, they greatly increased the death and suffering due to Covid.

If we had a public health edifice that was worth anything, front line health care workers and public-facing store employees would be on Covid prophylaxis. The Federal public health agencies (FDA/NIH/CDC) have seemingly completely ignored cheap effective re-purposed therapeutics that could have significantly reduced deaths and transmission.

Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19: meta analysis of 35 studies
https://ivmmeta.com/

Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
Key protocols from this group use Ivermectin.

COVID Care for Clinicians
https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/
Ditto this group.

India has been using HCQ and Ivermectin for many months as therapeutics and for prophylaxis. Their curves are quite impressive, scroll down to see them here.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
Anyone able to interpret a basic graph will be impressed. Why is this not being talked about in Western media?

Also from India:
Ziverdo Kit Contains Zinc Acetate 50 mg, Doxycycline 100 mg & Ivermectin 12 mg Dispersible Tablets. It is currently indicated in the first line treatment for COVID-19 positive patients. Quadruple Therapy with Ivermectin is effective in treating COVID-19
https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/
That’s a link to an Indian online pharmacy selling that Covid treatment kit for under $2, just add vitamin D3.

Also, the meta-study link has links to a number of other studies. Here’s the one for HCQ.

HCQ is effective for COVID-19 when used early: real-time meta analysis of 197 studies
https://hcqmeta.com/

I continue to think the FedGov’s handling of these therapeutics criminal.


12 posted on 02/16/2021 2:23:42 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: bIlluminati; BobL

India’s success had been obvious for months to anyone able to interpret a simple graph. See this post:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3934485/posts?page=40#40

Like BobL said, they cheated and used HCQ and Ivermectic for very early stage treatment and therapeutics. Go look at the IndiaRx Ziverdo Kit link in my big post above and consider they are widely shipping out an under-$2 card of treatment meds/supplements that is effective. But it makes Big Pharma nothing . . .


13 posted on 02/16/2021 2:36:11 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: basalt

I continue to think many, many more have had this thing than is reflected in the initial numbers. Heck, I think I may have had it back in mid-February ‘20, weeks before the initial big lockdown and grocery store mob scenes.


14 posted on 02/16/2021 2:39:28 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I meant to courtesy ping you in the replied to post.


15 posted on 02/16/2021 2:41:17 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: basalt

Its dropping here because they changed the PCR test cycle number.

Fewer false positives in the testing.


16 posted on 02/16/2021 4:25:01 AM PST by webstersII
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To: FreedomPoster

thats exactly what that doctor on CNN said...many more had it and just went on living...


17 posted on 02/16/2021 6:16:22 AM PST by basalt
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To: basalt

And I meant “official numbers”, not initial. I blame posting before coffee. But we’re on the same page.

Trends on JHU are quite encoraging.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases-50-states


18 posted on 02/16/2021 6:57:49 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

“... it makes Big Pharma”

That sure does look like the root cause of the failure to take these sensible precautions in the USA, doesn’t it? The CDC, FDA and Fauci et al are all in on it and doing their bidding. There are hundreds of billions in vaccine revenue at stake, maybe several trillions. That’s a big motivator.


19 posted on 02/16/2021 7:18:22 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Life is short, and work long, opportunity fleeting, experiments dangerous, and judgment hard)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I hate to be so cynical about such a huge public health issue, but I can’t see it any other way with the facts at hand.


20 posted on 02/16/2021 8:06:46 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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