I give up.
Other explanations center on universal BCG vaccination in India, or domestic Hydroxychloroquine use to combat malaria. While it is true, for instance, that countries with BCG vaccination appear so far to have less transmission, these countries are also warmer, have younger populations, and—because they are poorer—likely tested late. So it is hard to know whether there is a true link between Covid-19 and BCG or malaria burdens. Further analysis is required, though it may not come fast enough to help in this epidemic.
Ultimately, India’s relatively light exposure to Covid-19 remains a puzzle. It may have certain characteristics that protect it from the deadliest impact, but they do not suggest that it will escape the pandemic unscathed. Great care and vigilance are still necessary.
The author's background:
Anup Malani is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Pritzker School of Medicine; Arpit Gupta is an assistant professor of finance at the NYU Stern School of Business; and Reuben Abraham is CEO of the IDFC Foundation and IDFC Institute in Mumbai.
Domestic antimalarial Hydroxychloroquine use would also explain why Bangladesh hasn’t been hit hard.
I give up.
It’s because they hate the Chinese.
IMHO couple of reasons:
1) Extreme social distancing. Cops there are actually caning people who violate stay-at-home orders.
2) India is awash with Malaria and those who can afford to do so typically take HCQ as a prophylactic.
#1 is curious as at any given time there are at least fifteen diseases circulating in India that are worse than this one.
Plague killed them first?
“There are four possible explanations”. Then deep down: “another explanation is the medicine which is helping people”. MSM spends a lot of time making their articles are just twisted enough.
I cannot imagine it is at all related, but my understanding is that Yellow Fever has never had a presence in Asia despite Asia having the same species of mosquito that Africa and the Caribbean do. I think one theory is that some other, milder, virus in Asia is endemic and effectively blocks Yellow Fever from moving into the same space.
Maybe India is benefiting from something like that.
The closed borders early.
The imposed strict social distancing and contact tracing.
But, India is on a tear. Less than two weeks ago their numbers were in the low 100’s—roughly 400.
They are now about 12,000. They are growing about 10% per day.
I would suggest all of the reasons mentioned above—but I would caution folks not to be too excited as they may merely be behind “our” curve. And remember, our curve is NYC based. The rest of the US is pretty much behind “our curve.”
Curry? It’s been speculated that the reason arthritis is less common in India is because of curry.
Or Africa- with primitive medicine
199. That`s the number of tests they have done per million residents. Plus many people are too poor to even contemplate getting medical help.
I have been watching You Tube videos of Mumbai slum population life. What I viewed is rechedness on an unbelievable scale.
From my observations, I will argue that India lacks the capability to gather and disseminate covid data at a meaningful level.
LA tent cities are Mumbai slums in the infant stage
The HCQ might be it, but I’m betting the real reason is because no one is testing (or cares about) the deaths in the lower castes.
Perhaps somthing related to most of the nation being below the Tropic of Cancer.
I joked with a friend, who asked why it seemed like the homeless were not affected by Covid-19, if you can survive a year in a homeless camp, you probably build up immunity to a lot of things.
...I’ve no idea, really.
Why? Because the hype is fake. OVERREACTION. Fake news hype...
I keep asking myself why aren't we seeing the virus rampaging through poorer countries with poor health care poor sanitation infrastructure. Why is COVID-19 not devastating Central American countries and nations in Africa? Why does this appear to be a 'Rich Country Problem'?
An obvious answer would be people in wealthier countries have money to travel and they are spreading the disease.
Even so why isn't it affecting immigrant communities? Why aren't we seeing high numbers of Chinese in Americas who travel back and forth to China disproportionately affected?
Their lips are moving - THEY ARE LYING!
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/india-providing-hydroxychloroquine-drug-over-50-countries-coronavirus-full-list-608345
Not as many obese people.