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It seems far too early to judge the degree to which warm weather mitigates this. There have been a growing number of cases in Australia and South America. Als
by danans 7y ago
It seems far too early to judge the degree to which warm weather mitigates this. There have been a growing number of cases in Australia and South America.
Also consider that in India, there is not only a massive population, but access to tests per capita is probably quite low. Furthermore, the background noise of other infectious diseases is higher there, so many of these cases may go unnoticed or just attributed to common ailments.
Death by infectious disease, while tragic, is somewhat more normalized there, and it might be hard to convince a lot of people not to go about their daily lives.
- pkaye 7y agoIndia also has a young population.
- danans 7y agoThat would reduce the death rate, note the infection rate.
- stjohnswarts 7y agoHow do they know the infection rate unless they are randomly sampling and I haven't read of any country doing anything close to that other than Korea, and it wasn't all the random.
- danans 7y agoData from the China CDC shows the mortality rate (not the infection rate) is strongly correlated with age, especially above the age of 50. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099662/china-wuhan-coronavirus-covid-19-fatality-rate-by-age-group/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099662/china-wuhan-coro...
- sivakon 7y agoPeople coming from overseas have to go through mandatory quanrantine in India. Air travel is restricted. A ship with Chinese travelers was halted near coastline as per WHO guidelines recently.
- danans 7y agoIt would be very surprising if they quarantined in time or strictly enough to prevent the virus from entering in significant numbers. Even societies with highly centralized control structures (Iran, Japan) weren't able to keep it out. I doubt a decentralized country like India with huge amounts of human movement without and within could do it, just as the US and EU couldn't.