India places an order for 100 million tablets of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine

The Times of India ^ | April 3, 2020 | Via PTI

[nwrep]

NEW DELHI: The Centre has placed orders with several pharmaceutical companies procure over 10 crore (100 million) hydroxychloroquine tablets, the ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) has recommended to be used as a preventive medication.

[pelican001]

” These people who have been denying treatment are in too deep.”

I’m afraid you might be right.

[timestax]

Where the heck are our orders? We should be mass producing this drug by the boatload. I realize that it’s still in “trial” but we should be manufacturing tons of it to have it ready to go.

That's right

[alabama_heart]

You would actually have to explain that to the snowflake crowd. Speaking of prophylactics, I had to pick up a Rx for my wife a few days ago at Walmart. When you stand in line you can see the aisle where the condoms are stocked. I think I had counted maybe 10 boxes left out of a huge display. People have been keeping busy to a certain extent.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Sign the petition!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-us-individuals-use-hydroxychloroquine-preventative-covid-19-open-country-and-go-back-work

[DoodleBob]

As part of my continuing monitoring and re-casting/standardizing COVID-19 data in US population terms , I am now turning to the data on fatalities, insofar as Confirmed Case data may be a function of greater testing vs viral spread.

I took the fatality data through Apr 2, 2020, divided it by that country's population and multiplied it by the US' population to put everyone on an even/US footing. I then set Day 1 to be right before each country hits 1,000 deaths on a US population-adjusted basis.

I excluded countries where their size-adjusted fatality count hasn't reached 1,000 yet. I also dropped a few countries where their Day 1 was within the past few days.

The table below is sorted by the Day 10 values; please note the US didn't hit 1,000 deaths until March 26. Unlike with the Confirmed Case data, I did not adjust out the New York State data since other countries may have hot spots, and I want this analysis to be on an equal footing: we don't selectively clean the chad here at FR.

When you look at the data this way, the US is consistently in the middle of the pack. Even if you threw out the top three (which have small populations but they're getting destroyed on a per-capita basis), the US has been consistent in its relative ranking. That means that while our Confirmed Case count is rising, the fatality count on a population-adjusted/relative basis hasn't worsened. It also hasn't gotten better, but this stability should be viewed as a GOOD thing.

Now, the US' Confirmed Case rise started to ramp up on March 19. If it takes 7-14 days for people to be declared 'cured' OR die, then we SHOULD start to see an attendant rise in fatalities. So far, based on this analysis ladies and gentlement...it ain't happenin' yet.

Let's not break out the bubbly yet. We have lots of fellow Americans who are hurting medically, emotionally, and financially. Keep fighting the good fight as we all spend 30 days in the hole...and let's keep praying.

Country	Day 1 Date	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Day 8	Day 9	Day 10
Andorra	3/21/20	4,250	4,250	4,250	4,250	12,750	12,750	12,750	25,500	34,000	51,000
West Bank and Gaza	3/25/20	-	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	-
San Marino	3/3/20	9,816	9,816	9,816	9,816	9,816	9,816	9,816	19,632	19,632	29,447
United Kingdom	3/15/20	700	1,866	1,866	2,399	4,598	5,931	7,797	9,396	11,196	14,095
Spain	3/13/20	931	1,364	2,022	2,393	3,729	4,359	5,807	7,298	9,621	12,287
France	3/18/20	727	1,194	2,211	2,761	3,321	4,235	5,414	6,549	8,343	9,812
Belgium	3/19/20	601	1,058	1,916	2,145	2,516	3,489	5,090	6,291	8,264	10,094
Italy	3/5/20	810	1,078	1,275	2,002	2,533	3,452	4,524	4,524	6,926	7,883
Netherlands	3/17/20	812	1,095	1,454	2,021	2,587	3,399	4,041	5,231	6,742	8,215
Ireland	3/25/20	603	1,272	1,473	2,411	3,080	3,616	4,754	5,692	6,562	-
United States	3/25/20	942	1,209	1,581	2,026	2,467	2,978	3,873	4,757	5,926	-
Sweden	3/23/20	797	1,148	1,977	2,456	3,349	3,349	3,508	4,656	5,741	7,622
Macedonia	3/24/20	970	1,455	1,455	1,455	1,940	2,910	3,394	4,364	5,334	5,334
Portugal	3/25/20	738	1,058	1,379	1,924	2,437	3,207	3,816	4,490	5,131	5,997
Austria	3/23/20	777	1,037	1,111	1,814	2,147	2,517	3,184	3,998	4,738	5,405
Switzerland	3/16/20	537	1,036	1,075	1,574	2,073	2,879	3,761	4,606	4,682	5,872
Germany	3/25/20	816	1,058	1,355	1,716	2,113	2,556	3,072	3,646	4,388	-
Denmark	3/23/20	736	1,358	1,811	1,924	2,321	2,943	3,679	4,075	4,358	5,094
Luxembourg	3/17/20	537	1,074	2,147	2,147	4,295	4,295	4,295	4,295	4,295	4,831
Iran	3/9/20	937	1,151	1,400	1,697	2,033	2,416	2,863	3,373	3,907	4,489
Cyprus	3/23/20	376	1,129	1,129	1,129	1,881	1,881	1,881	2,634	3,010	3,386
Iceland	3/23/20	905	1,809	1,809	1,809	1,809	1,809	1,809	1,809	1,809	1,809

[CaptainK]

Thanks for all this work!

[Jane Long]

Which ‘pharmaceutical companies’ (that’s all the article said) did India order these 100 Million pills from?

How come India can do this, and we have not? At least...not that I am aware of.

[nwrep]

We do. Mylan Pharma in West Virginia.

[Jane Long]

Yes, I know about the Mylan plant, in WV.

How soon can they produce 100 Million tablets?

My question is...where can we put in an order, like India, for this many tabs, right now?

Maybe Mylan can do it.

[nwrep]

Mylan said they would produce 50 million by mid April.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for that info.

[minnesota_bound]

India might want to work on traffic safety first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_accidents_in_India

[LS]

What the heck is up with San Marino??

[DoodleBob]

I asked the same question when I saw the data. It's a tiny nation/city state of 33k citizens (and 251 confirmed COVID-19 cases 32 deaths) that is totally surrounded by that European hotspot, Italy.

[plushaye]

India is the largest producer of generic drugs in the world. HCQ is a cheap generic so they can definitely crank it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry_in_India

[plushaye]

There seems to be more correlation that malaria-prone areas of the world aren’t not being hit by covid19. For example, parts of India - see map at link. Are places where quinine (HCQ/CQ) used to fight malaria may not be affected by covid19?

https://twitter.com/DocKilmer/status/1246163216662659075

Puzzling to me is that residents of India, other than foreigners, don’t take quinine in general. I think the same is of locals in African countries. Is there something else giving possible immunity?