Posted on 05/18/2020 12:36:15 PM PDT by 11th_VA
India has recorded its biggest single-day surge with 5,242 new cases of coronavirus and 157 deaths due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s infection tally to more than 96,000, the most in Asia
NEW DELHI, India — India has recorded its biggest single-day surge with 5,242 new cases of coronavirus and 157 deaths due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s infection tally to more than 96,000, the most in Asia.
The country now has 3,029 reported fatalities due to COVID-19.
The surge in infections comes a day after the federal government extended a nationwide lockdown to May 31 but eased some restrictions to restore economic activity and gave states more control in deciding the nature of the lockdown.
Authorities are largely attributing the recent surge in infections to the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to India’s villages, which have weaker health infrastructure.
India had eased its lockdown rules on May 4 and even allowed migrant workers to travel back to their homes, a decision that has resulted in millions of people being on the move for the last two weeks.
All domestic and international passenger flights remain prohibited in the country. Metro services, schools, colleges, hotels and restaurants also remain shuttered nationwide.
Most of the infections reported in India are from its major cities. Mumbai, the financial capital and home to Bollywood, alone has registered almost 20% of the total cases.
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This might be the take away. MILLiONS of workers left the cities after the shutdown - and returned to their villages.
Shutdown was probably a bad idea
...and scroll down, down, down to find these paragraphs:
Furthermore, Chiusolo told the Post, the Italian Society of Rheumatology interviewed 1,200 rheumatologists throughout Italy to collect statistics on contagions. Out of an audience of 65,000 chronic lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients who systematically take hydroxychloroquine, only 20 patients tested positive for the virus.“Nobody died, nobody is in intensive care, according to the data collected so far,” Chiusolo said. "
*** When was that? Texas had 1,005 new cases in yesterday’s reporting and rallying for today is still under way. ***
That was on Saturday. Type in 1800 new cases in Texas on any search engine. Mother’s Day surge? My County takes about a week for results to be tested/reported.
It's true that HCQ has been implicated in some heart arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death --- but the incidence has been so small, and the risk so remote, that RA patients are not even generally screened for cardiac issues.
We get a simple quarterly blood and urine test to detect levels, and a yearly ophthalmic exam for retina. Never had a problem.
And the real kicker is the duration of the prescription. Typical COVID-19 patient on Dr. Zelenko's treatment gets HCQ for under a week. Typical RA patient is on daily HCQ for decades.
You can see, a little perspective helps.
You have to test to have confirmed cases.
“Authorities are largely attributing the recent surge in infections to the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to India’s villages, which have weaker health infrastructure. “
These are internal migrants, folks who leave home and family to go where the jobs are. They were closer to better health care where they worked than their families back in the villages were. Then a lot of the economy got shut down and the workers went home to the villages, and those who were infected took the infection to the countryside, which often hadn’t seen much of it yet.
It is not the only time, the only way, the lock downs create deaths, by the Wuhan Virus and other ways.
I’ll just drop off here...
OK.. saw that day’s reporting on Worldometers. Probably it was, as you said, a conglomeration of reporting from not only that day but others. Fortunately, their numbers have been better Sunday and so far today.
Just wait until research finds out that sacred cows carry the disease!
“Cases of infection” are not COVID. Having tested positive for the virus that is harmless to 99.9% of the population is meaningless. It just shows more and more what a hoax this is.
the Indian sub-continent has factors that will limit Covid
1. the heat - except in the extreme north the heat in summer is hot enough to tear off the covid lipid “crown” in a few hours in the sunlight
2. the population has had BCG vaccination and many took/take anti-malaria drugs
3. Low incidence of obesity and diabetes compared to the West.
4. Far more vegetarianism and even for non-vegetarians the bulk of protein is from vegetables
So I would expect their death number at the end to be about 10K or less.
Incidentally that's in a state with a population of 300 million.
The worst hit state has been Maharashtra with 1500 deaths out of a population of 100 million. This is the state with the largest most densely packed city - Bombay
The next badly hit was Gujarat with 800 -- another highly urbanized state
by the by, the map above shows the crazy multi-cultural diversity of India — each of the “states” is really a separate nation with it’s own language, language script — it has 28 states — and each of these languages have hundreds of years (if not, like Marathi and Tamil over 2000 years) of written history.
that picture is from Pakistan - you can make out by the mosque in the back and the costumes
In addition PM Modi went into lockdown when they had very few cases and he has also shut entry into the country
I don't see India as slated to get "real bad" -- worse than now, but nowhere near Western European levels
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