New York Times: As India’s Covid Crisis Rages, Its Neighbors Brace for the Worst
Vaccine shortages, porous borders and fleeing migrant workers have nearby countries fearing that they will share India’s fate.
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Most of Nepal is under lockdown, its hospitals overwhelmed.Bangladesh suspended vaccination sign-ups after promised supplies were cut off. Sri Lanka’s hopes of a tourism-led economic revival have collapsed.
As India battles a horrific surge of the coronavirus, the effects have spilled over to its neighbors. Most nearby countries have sealed their borders. Several that had been counting on Indian-made vaccines are pleading with China and Russia instead.
The question is whether that will be enough, in a region that shares many of the risk factors that made India so vulnerable: densely populated cities, heavy air pollution, fragile health care systems and large populations of poor workers who must weigh the threat of the virus against the possibility of starvation.
Though the countries’ outbreaks can’t all be linked to India, officials across the region have expressed growing dread over how easily their fates could follow that of their neighbor. “I feel like it’s a world war situation,” said Dr. Rajan Pandey, a physician in Banke, a Nepali district along the India border, who said he was turning away 30 patients asking for hospital beds every day.
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More News On India's Covid Crisis Spreading To Other Countries
Red Cross warns that coronavirus cases are exploding in Asia -- AP
Scores more bodies of suspected Covid victims found in Indian rivers -- The Guardian
India's second wave is ravaging villages without hospitals or even doctors to fight it -- CNN
Coronavirus is ripping through India's remote north, where whole villages are helpless against its advance -- ABC news (Australia)
Global concern grows as COVID-19 variant ravages rural India -- Reuters
Covid research: variant found in India may spread faster than type detected in Kent -- The Guardian
Indian Covid-19 variant found in 44 countries around world, says WHO -- France 24
Japan to ban foreign residents who traveled to India, Nepal and Pakistan -- Japan Times
India's Covid-19 catastrophe could make global shortages even worse -- CNN
5 comments:
"india has an estimated 77 million people with diabetes, which makes it the second most affected in the world, after China.[2] One in six people (17%) in the world with diabetes is from India"
If you have diabetes, you should be concerned about COVID.
But let's keep up with the panic porn.
Why are Indians more prone to diabetes?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15645957/
Diabetes: An Indian epidemic - Health Issues India
healthissuesindia.comhttps://www.healthissuesindia.com/2019/10/12/diabetes-an-indian-epidemic/
how we live the major determinant rather than ethnicity:
Diabetes, a global public health problem, is now emerging as a pandemic and by the year 2025, three-quarters of the world's 300 million adults with diabetes will be in non-industrialized countries and almost a third in India and China alone. There is evidence from several studies that the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is increasing in migrant Indians. Today, the prevalence of diabetes in the urban metros of India is approaching the figures reported in the affluent migrant Indians. Environmental and lifestyle changes resulting from industrialization and migration to urban environment from rural settings may be responsible to a large extent, for this epidemic of Type 2 diabetes in Indians. Obesity, especially central obesity and increased visceral fat due to physical inactivity, and consumption of a high-calorie/high-fat and high sugar diets are major contributing factors. There is also strong evidence that Indians have a greater degree of insulin resistance and a stronger genetic predisposition to diabetes.
how we live the major determinant rather than ethnicity:
Go fuck yourself bitch. Did your puny slug sized brain did you really believe that I was putting Indians down?
If you look at the articles, which I linked they say as much about lifestyle. But it is also genetic. People have been bred to retain calories, because they were farmers and faced lean times often. Between not physically working as hard and not having lean times as in the agrarian past, our genes and cultures have not always adapted.
If you look at the US by the 60s and 70s people were worried about heart attacks. That was probably the result of shifting from an agrarians society to an industrialized and our eating and other habits did not shifting fast enough. Got through that and now the next problem in line is cancer.
Take the Zuni. They had a extremely high incidence of diabetes. It was crushing the community. They brought back running or running competitions harking back to times and traditions 100 years or more in the past. Diabetes is not anywhere near a problem anymore. You should watch the documentary.
https://www.zyep.org/physical-activity/
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/18/us/surge-in-indians-diabetes-linked-to-their-history.html
Cannot find the documentary, but above is a link to their running & other programs.
3:43 you come across as a sopping wet liberal.
I had one point in the India COVID post. That is that the virus is not that deadly. It is that the people are weak. They have diabetes. Mix diabetes and a pathogen together and you have a noticeable rate of bad outcomes.
I was discussing this with some mates during the last few weeks, one of whom is in the Border Force, when the new varients hit India. We all knew it was coming to Britain. Tons of people were & are coming into the UK from India. Hey presto it's in London, Bedfordshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire. Why travel from infected countries is not stopped is bizarre. We can't travel anywhere in the UK but millions of foreign people can travel here from the badly infected countries including Brazil. It's like the grown ups in Parliament & Whitehall want a cull. Keep ducking 🙉
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