10-30-2021, 03:43 AM
(10-30-2021, 12:01 AM)capcom link Wrote:VERY interesting reading this morning how and why India's death numbers have dropped like a stone.
Turns out they (allegedly) have a natural body immunity to the virus. In a way, I'm not surprised by that given their living conditions over many generations and a build up of resistance.
From what I've read, just under 70% of the Indian population now has COVID antibodies, indicating that they have been vaccinated or have been exposed to the virus. Only 52% of the population has had one vaccination so a significant number of those with COVID antibodies must have had the virus. This represents a serious undercount of infections; 33 undetected infections for every one detected :o
Undercounting COVID cases and deaths has been a feature of the pandemic in India. Excess deaths has been estimated at between 3.4 and 4.9M and the official COVID death toll is 400,000.
Similar sharp declines in case numbers were observed in the UK, the Netherlands and Israel after the most recent spikes and were explained as likely to be the result high vaccination rates and high infection levels.
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball