* Among the nearly 88,000 COVID-19 cases in India, there have been about 2,750 recorded deaths.
* Nearly 75% of India's population are below the age of 40
* India’s climate is another factor that scientists are considering. Viruses are less likely to spread in warmer weather, and India’s relative proximity to the equator means the nation’s temperatures are quite hot year-round.
* India has not tested its population as broadly as other nations, Even now, India is still lagging in testing while other nations, such as the United States, continue to increase testing. It is quite possible there’s a large amount of COVID cases in India that have gone unreported.
* Another theory is that the immune system of the average individual in India is better equipped to fight COVID-19. The malaria vaccine referred to as BCG in India, or hydroxychloroquine in the U.S., is universally administered in India. One possibility is that when you get vaccinated for BCG, the nature of that vaccination is such that it triggers your body to be reactive or responsive to many different diseases.
* Some also think that India’s stringent lockdown measure kept the virus from spreading rampantly across the nation
Brazil has most of those same characteristics and has been hit hard.
Wasn’t quinine first used in India? By the British soldiers.
I think the biggest issue is that India is Malaria country and they’re used to taking BCG or Hydroxy with no fear. Same goes with African countries and Australia, NZ.
They bathe in the Ganges, the same place where they defecate and send their dead down river. Their immune systems are in overdrive.
Well THAT would explain it.
Don’t they poop in the streets there? (Like in San Francisco, which also has a low COVID-19 death rate.)
The growth rate is exponential in India - 2K per day 2 weeks ago. Now 5K cases per day.
That warm weather stuff was merely a theory and scientists oppose it now.
How about “obese people are in more danger” and millions of Indians are underweight?
Best outcome: some spice found in typical Indian dishes kills the Covid in its tracks. We can dream.
Speaking of India...
https://www.wired.com/story/india-covid-19-contract-tracing-app-patient-location-privacy/
Hmmm.
That spicy curry yo......sh*t will kill a load of germs and virus’
Why? Easy one: Even viruses try to avoid that sh!thole.
curry
All excellent points, I would think the young age of the population is probably one of the more important factors explaining their lower death toll.
I would also point out lower rates of obesity and general fatness.
CV thrives on the very old and those who are younger with health problems stemming mainly from being overweight.
The author of that article thought BCG vaccine and hydroxychloroquine were the same thing? I see that’s been corrected in the updated article.
FWIW, I ran across this Israeli article saying BCG vaccine isn’t protective sgainst COVID-19, so maybe It’s hydroxychloroquine use or something else helping in India.
The article leaves out completely the fact that in India Hydoxychlorquine is commonly given as a prophylactic claimed to prevent a Wuhan Virus infection, and given to tons of Indian health care workers and the general public who asks for it.
Any study that is done that only considers the factors mentioned in the article and leaves out the Indians’ use of Hydroxychloroquine will not be a truly scientific study.
India’s medical system is so non-existent that it has no way to gather valid statistics on CV-19 rates in India. The same is true for ALL of India’s neighbors save China, and even China doesn’t have the capability in its tiny and isolated border areas with India.
India? Lockdown? Uh, no.