Epidemiological data indicates Indians may have better chance at fighting coronavirus. But it’s important to keep viral loads in check & below threshold.
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Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Just few days back all these experts were giving horror story that there will be more than 500 million corona cases in india and more than 2 million will die. Now Modi with strong hand approach and with people’s (Non Tablighi’s) whole hearted support seems to be succeeding in effectively controlling it. The Print and other traitors cannot digest it. They wanted to see 2 million death because of corona and then blame Modi for it. Their dreams are stand shattered. Now they are worried the credit will go to the government and the leadership, so they want to raise a bogey of natural immunity, weather etc.
Bunch of nonsense. why did 1918 flu killed 20 million in India? If the author is so confident then Modi should open India as there is nothing to worry about.
The author is a former dean of AIIMS. He must be knowing what he is writing. I am not a medic. But just because I cannot play the ball, I wont play the man.
Complete junk that should not be published. The only reason the number of cases is low in India is because of inadequate testing. India is testing less than 40 people per 1 million. New York is testing 9,000 people per million. No testing = no cases. Wishful thinking.
If that is the reason then we would have been witnessing alarming number of deaths from all over the country and specially from slums where people live in close proximity, but that is not the case. Our genes, habits and weather is helping us against covid 19.
It’s a serious matter, based on Scientific studies, with emperical postulations.
Rhetorical comments are of no consequence.
Making fun of India’s traditional food habits had been a happy pastime for the blind brains.
Will somebody explain No Covid 19 Casualty in Workers gigantic migration of 15 millions, to East UP & BIHAR !
Also very little Covid 19 Cases in NE, EAST & East Coastal India, raises definite issues of some valid Resistance/ Immunity in this part of the Country’s population’s DNA.
I am a few years off 80. Just as a matter of interest and re the Black aDeath or great plauge of centuries ago. Test done on the descendants of survivors reveiled that these descendents were carrying a protective gene inherited from their earliest European ancestors. Hence the reason that their ancestors survived the great plauge.I hope this is of interest. Thank you for reading.
Years later, we may also do a similar study and find that COVID-19 did the same to us.
It killed off those of us without protective genes as we did not practice physical distancing well since we assume Yoga, Turmeric and last year’s diarrhea made us immune.
Indian are not that immune. Even today, Indians die 20 times more than Americans, 32 times the British and 133 times Russians from common diarrhea, even when adjusted for population. To hope we would be specially immune for a disease we were never exposed to is delusional.
The writer of this article is a F**king idiot. The only reason India has few cases today as compared to other nations is because of the 21 days lockdown initiated by our Government !! Everything else is a lie !! Social distancing and the hardwork of doctors and Police. Such people should be punished for spreading misinformation in such perilous times . You want to maintain the status quo , then blisten to the government and cooperate . Do it for your elders if not for yourself . Don’t be the reason for someone else’s death. STAY HOME STAY SAFE !! DOWNLOAD Aarogya Setu App by government. It’s a great initiative , just like what they did in South KOREA.
You are a lowly worm, So you are the expert here? What is your medical qualification? i doubt if you even have a basic qualification considering your unciviled post.
That’s right……
This is not a time to make unsubstantiated claims. This crap isn’t supported by scientific evidence.
Some time back, a message floated around in social media claiming that we Indians are exposed to more diseases and infections than western and other countries, and we have the required resistance to overcome COVID 19 also. Rather frivolously, the message added that the spices and chilli we eat will kill Covid 19! Be that as it may, I hope that if the inferences in this article are even reasonably plausible, that explains low infection and mortality rate in a huge and populous country like India.
We are late in getting C19 only because no Chinese visits India. Chinese tourists were swamping Italy Spain UK New York. These are hot spots today. Tomorrow is our turn.
Mortality rate in India is low right now, as testing rate is abysmally low. Also actual mortality rate comes after a lagging time of 10 days. First the patient has to develop symptoms, thereafter wait for the test results. Even though Indians may be genetically predisposed to fight viruses better than Caucasians, due to pollution, undernourishment, bad drinking water and other diseases ( TB), Indian population has to be considered weakened right from the beginning.
Arguably if there was any ‘natural’ resistance to the ill effects of nCov19 exposure, populations with the most genetic diversity would hence, in theory, show reduced severity of covid19 and arguably, controlling for other factors, reduced CFRs. East Africa and then the Indian subcontinent are two such areas of tremendous genetic diversity.
Just few days back all these experts were giving horror story that there will be more than 500 million corona cases in india and more than 2 million will die. Now Modi with strong hand approach and with people’s (Non Tablighi’s) whole hearted support seems to be succeeding in effectively controlling it. The Print and other traitors cannot digest it. They wanted to see 2 million death because of corona and then blame Modi for it. Their dreams are stand shattered. Now they are worried the credit will go to the government and the leadership, so they want to raise a bogey of natural immunity, weather etc.
Bunch of nonsense. why did 1918 flu killed 20 million in India? If the author is so confident then Modi should open India as there is nothing to worry about.
The author is a former dean of AIIMS. He must be knowing what he is writing. I am not a medic. But just because I cannot play the ball, I wont play the man.
Wtf even here. More than coronavirus, people die with ego related diseases.
Complete junk that should not be published. The only reason the number of cases is low in India is because of inadequate testing. India is testing less than 40 people per 1 million. New York is testing 9,000 people per million. No testing = no cases. Wishful thinking.
If that is the reason then we would have been witnessing alarming number of deaths from all over the country and specially from slums where people live in close proximity, but that is not the case. Our genes, habits and weather is helping us against covid 19.
It’s a serious matter, based on Scientific studies, with emperical postulations.
Rhetorical comments are of no consequence.
Making fun of India’s traditional food habits had been a happy pastime for the blind brains.
Will somebody explain No Covid 19 Casualty in Workers gigantic migration of 15 millions, to East UP & BIHAR !
Also very little Covid 19 Cases in NE, EAST & East Coastal India, raises definite issues of some valid Resistance/ Immunity in this part of the Country’s population’s DNA.
I am a few years off 80. Just as a matter of interest and re the Black aDeath or great plauge of centuries ago. Test done on the descendants of survivors reveiled that these descendents were carrying a protective gene inherited from their earliest European ancestors. Hence the reason that their ancestors survived the great plauge.I hope this is of interest. Thank you for reading.
Years later, we may also do a similar study and find that COVID-19 did the same to us.
It killed off those of us without protective genes as we did not practice physical distancing well since we assume Yoga, Turmeric and last year’s diarrhea made us immune.
Indian are not that immune. Even today, Indians die 20 times more than Americans, 32 times the British and 133 times Russians from common diarrhea, even when adjusted for population. To hope we would be specially immune for a disease we were never exposed to is delusional.
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/diarrhoeal-diseases/by-country/
The writer of this article is a F**king idiot. The only reason India has few cases today as compared to other nations is because of the 21 days lockdown initiated by our Government !! Everything else is a lie !! Social distancing and the hardwork of doctors and Police. Such people should be punished for spreading misinformation in such perilous times . You want to maintain the status quo , then blisten to the government and cooperate . Do it for your elders if not for yourself . Don’t be the reason for someone else’s death. STAY HOME STAY SAFE !! DOWNLOAD Aarogya Setu App by government. It’s a great initiative , just like what they did in South KOREA.
You are a lowly worm, So you are the expert here? What is your medical qualification? i doubt if you even have a basic qualification considering your unciviled post.
That’s right……
This is not a time to make unsubstantiated claims. This crap isn’t supported by scientific evidence.
Some time back, a message floated around in social media claiming that we Indians are exposed to more diseases and infections than western and other countries, and we have the required resistance to overcome COVID 19 also. Rather frivolously, the message added that the spices and chilli we eat will kill Covid 19! Be that as it may, I hope that if the inferences in this article are even reasonably plausible, that explains low infection and mortality rate in a huge and populous country like India.
We are late in getting C19 only because no Chinese visits India. Chinese tourists were swamping Italy Spain UK New York. These are hot spots today. Tomorrow is our turn.
This is conjecture and should not be printed. It will prompt Indians to lower their guard and not be vigilant about prevention. Misinformation
Mortality rate in India is low right now, as testing rate is abysmally low. Also actual mortality rate comes after a lagging time of 10 days. First the patient has to develop symptoms, thereafter wait for the test results. Even though Indians may be genetically predisposed to fight viruses better than Caucasians, due to pollution, undernourishment, bad drinking water and other diseases ( TB), Indian population has to be considered weakened right from the beginning.
Arguably if there was any ‘natural’ resistance to the ill effects of nCov19 exposure, populations with the most genetic diversity would hence, in theory, show reduced severity of covid19 and arguably, controlling for other factors, reduced CFRs. East Africa and then the Indian subcontinent are two such areas of tremendous genetic diversity.
I would wish to visit this page after 60 days to check where we are. I hope this is true.