What Made Asia’s Largest Slum a Success Model for Treating COVID-19?
American Thinker,
by
Vijay Jayaraj
Original Article
Posted By: Supersid,
7/21/2020 7:23:50 AM
On July 9, 2020 Asia’s biggest and densest slum shocked the world by announcing just one new positive COVID-19 case despite being a cluster and hotspot. (Snip) India feared the worst when a cluster outbreak of COVID-19 was reported in Dharavi. It could have become the biggest COVID-19 disaster zone in the world. But by using proactive measures, Dharavi contained the virus.
Media around the world, like the Los Angeles Times, have reported the success. Even the World Health Organization praised Dharavi.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 7/21/2020 7:35:27 AM (No. 485540)
Unfortunately, the epidemic persists in India, which is averaging about 500 deaths per day. This is quite a low rate for such a vast county, but the rate is tending to accelerate.
There are no good data to show that hydroxychloroquine reduces the risk of infection
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/21/2020 8:15:06 AM (No. 485592)
After reading Mr. Jayaraj's article, which is full of excellent data, and then reading Iowa Dad's comment below, I think I'll believe what the resident of India has to say on the subject.
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India cares more about the people in their slums than our doctors and pharmacists care about us. They got the cure - hydroxychloroquine, while we have to fight to get it. My pharmacists said, he is required to challenge the doctors who prescribe it and he is completely out of it, anyway.
I don't think it should be used preventatively when those with covid cannot get a prescription filled. But to deny those who are sick with the cure is criminal.
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smcchk 7/21/2020 8:59:55 AM (No. 485666)
Pharmacists are trying to stop the prescribing of HCQ. That India can be more successful than the US is a disgrace. We can’t even send our kids to school in most districts but can’t be prescribed a $14 prescription that is NOT in short supply - it is being stockpiled.We even sent 2 million doses to Brazil.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/21/2020 9:59:10 AM (No. 485738)
Heard the Indian police have shoot to kill orders for anyone that was thinking to break quarantine. Quite a deterrent. If a person becomes diagnosed with CV19, they are sent home, the police are notified, and they watch where you live. If you are diagnosed with Cv19, you may well have a policeman outside your door.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/21/2020 10:01:56 AM (No. 485741)
Comparisons between countries are not valid when the US is infested with officials who are determined to keep our numbers high by lying, mis-classifying, reporting inflated numbers of cases, using faulty tests, labeling a death a COVID-19 death when the patient had multiple serious ailments before the virus diagnosis. India has no political agenda, they just want to get rid of the virus. This country is now driven by political agenda.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
FormerDem 7/21/2020 10:05:03 AM (No. 485744)
There's an herbal version of HCQ, actually its precursor and probably better, cinchona, which is grown in India among just a few other places. It is cheap. It is tree bark. I wonder if the poor are using it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/21/2020 10:24:19 AM (No. 485755)
The issue is not so much Trump's endorsement, but the $$$$ that will soon be lining pockets of those producing a vaccine. Let's accept that hydroxychloroquine with supplements is an effective treatment...what happens to all that vaccine investment by Big Pharma? What happens to the $$$$ being spent on testing and "public health"? That's the issue. $$$$ always is.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/21/2020 10:35:50 AM (No. 485767)
#1, there is a difference between "reduces the risk of infection", and treating the infection with the HCQ combination that includes Zinc and Zpack.
Once used, there is ample evidence the combo is effective at reducing the symptoms and improves the outcome.
India also had a recent clinical study of over 300,000 people using the combination in different dose levels, and in every level it helped.
For those that are saying it's a disgrace that India is doing something more, or better, than in the U.S., is crazy talk. They have a very large, very highly educated country full of doctors and computer programmers.
Anyone else wonder why the homeless people in the U.S. don't seem to be ravaged by Cv-19? It was warned they'd be a very likely casualty of this virus considering their living conditions, but nothing seems to be mentioned by the homeless advocates, or anyone else. Wonder how that's happened?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/21/2020 12:20:38 PM (No. 485874)
So my choices are to move to India or deal with the virus. I'll take the virus. India is a beautiful country but like Australia it's filled with stuff that want to kill you such as cobras and tigers. PT has been taking that stuff and as far as I know he's health as a horse.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LadyHen 7/21/2020 12:37:27 PM (No. 485896)
There are those here who are either part of or heavily invested in the pharmaceutical medical industrial complex who perpetually ignore more simple, less expensive, less time consuming medical treatments in favor of more expensive, more complex "solutions."
Always remember the Western medical establishment at one time excoriated those who washed their hands and bathed regularly but made a great deal of money bleeding patients to the point of death and prescribing arsenic and other poisons for everything from tumors to balding.
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#7 Thanks so much for the tip! I just ordered some on Amazon. I am keeping my vitamin D levels elevated as well.
The people that I know locally who have covid symptoms are being told to ride it out at home, and let their doctor know when they have trouble catching their breath. No hydroxychloroquine is being prescribed. No z-pac or zinc either. No BUDESONIDE inhaler is prescribed!!!
The medical community has lost my respect permanently due to their legalistic adherence to protocol and their complete inability to reason. Unfortunately, I feel my chances of survival are better if I can avoid the fight with a "hospitalist" who might love to put covid patients on vents (especially without a family member allowed in to advocate).
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pensom2 7/21/2020 1:42:47 PM (No. 485964)
I understand #12's point about physicians being too timid nowadays. However, it must be considered that, since the advent of Obamacare, most urban physicians are no longer independent contractors, they are employees of hospital and healthcare conglomerates. They have to follow orders, like any low-level employee. It's a shame.
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Looks like credit goes to hydroxychloroquine. Many democrat governors in the USA threatened criminal charges against doctors who dared to prescribe HCQ to their patients. Two of the most prestigious medical journals - NEJM and Lancet - published fraudulent research to discredit HCQ. All because Trump said something positive about it.