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Deaths are having a lag - about a week. We had high number of new infections (400k+) a week or so ago. In a day or two we should see fatalities dropping too.

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I was appalled to see ABC News reporters allowed to roam around Delhi's crematoriums up close to funeral pyres. Who the hell let them in? Why didn't they report the same of people being dumped in mass graves around NYC last year? To put in perspective India has crude death number of 28k a day, So i...

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She is a paediatrician and she is the daughter of M S Swaminathan, the Green Revolution guy.

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Finally I see a negative number. May be it is too early to celebrate but looking at the past 10 days the trend of active cases is down. Confirmed cases - Recoveries is NEGATIVE today. 329379-355745 = NEGATIVE 26,366

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I have been taking baby aspirin (81mg) for years now and have felt no side effects. I am diabetic but well controlled sugar levels. Only time I was asked to stop taking it is when I had to undergo some procedure like knee surgery etc. So I guess every bit helps and this baby aspirin might help too.

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Has anyone seen this video - kids packing swabs in the most unhygienic way. These things are supposed to be sterile, are they not? How can the results be accurate if this is the way they are doing it?
The kid appears to be sitting astride a sewer.
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400k cases today. the numbers are not going down :( Infection numbers is not a good parameter to gauge the trend. Look for positive rates. We are doing more than 2 million tests per day. More the test, more the numbers. Positive rates, stress on hospitals, rate of death. That should show the trend....

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He was diabetic and cardiac patient. If he was 83, how old would his father - in - law be? Link He was 83, and only practiced 20 years? How did you get that? Looks like he is still working at the time of his death.. During Vietnam War he was posted in Okinawa with US Army. That makes it more than 5...

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With this knowledge on March 17th why Kumbh mela wasn't given a go ahead ? You mean "why kumbh mela WAS given a go ahead?". Valid point. Wasn't tablighi whatever not stopped last year? Why farmer protests were still kept alive ? Blood is on their hands for continuing the protests. Instead ...

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darshan wrote:If Google is correct, Dr. Kapila's age was around 83. No information on other existing illnesses.

He was diabetic and cardiac patient.
If he was 83, how old would his father - in - law be?
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It does not make sense. 1.9 million they raised but could not raise just 38k? Also, won't Air India offer FREE transportation? Even US airlines operating to India may give free transportation for PR.

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Even though the case numbers seem to be increasing the recovery numbers are keeping in step and actually increasing. During the past five days the INCREASE in active cases is trending DOWN - 125919,126333,121461,117310,113341. At this rate we may see wave peaking around May 15.

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Too early to say but Mumbai is either stabilising or on a downward trend. There didn’t seem to be a shortage of oxygen in Mumbai either. Availability of beds is still tight but not impossible now. Testing capacity is still available: earlier results used to be same day but now is late next day. Sti...

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What is happening with Remidisivir? There seems to be huge black market. My brother in law's wife is in the hospital Guntur, AP and they can not get it. Someone has quoted 25k per injection (1.25 lakhs for five) and we have to arrange a car to get it from Hyderabad (180 km away).

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Big Hospitals can afford such plants.. Unfortunately most small and medium sized cant afford to install and maintain these plants.. Last wk I enquired regarding one such plant.. Quoting cost was 24 L for a plant which can produce 20 jumbo O2 cylinders per day.. Maintenance cost for such machines is...

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If we take any vaccine we cannot donate blood for 4 months. Now that we are giving whole mass, vaccine who will we get blood for needed? After oxygen next will be blood shortage. One more reason to blame modi. Could you please suggest this to the PGPortal or PMO portal? Assuming that 4 month rule i...

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UK is mostly dependent on AZ vaccine. We have to check its rates for AZ effectiveness. It ordered 100 mil az and only 40 mil Pfizer and 17 mil Moderna.

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My BiL got his first shot around 5th April. Few days later he was diagnosed from COVID19. I am certain he caught infection prior to the shot and obviously there was lag before the symptoms showed up. Five days back he was admitted into a hospital. He was tried the usual treatment including Remidisiv...

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Have you seen a mobile xray unit? I have not seen one in the USA. How big are they? How practical are they in Indian conditions? Are they in a van?

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Mid Sep 20 we had 1,017,000 active cases. Then the no kept dropping to 135k by Mid. Feb 21. Now it is crossing the million mark. What is surprising is the steepness of the rise of this wave. And the vaccinations are not stopping it. We seem to be testing over a million everyday (yday we had 1.3 mil ...

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OT:
"has overtook"?
It is like a shibboleth. Indian educated do not normally use that but many US educated do.

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:rotfl: thanks for posting the two videos, Anujan and CalvinH . Also that threat to India was hilarious, while smugly pointing out India’s “sea-locked” state. Hope he rises to the top turds float, no Sea-locked state? That is new one. That turd realizes that UK is also a Sea-Locked state and they r...

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J & J vaccine storage:
CDC recommends storing vaccine between 2°C and 8°C
(36°F and 46°F):
• Unpunctured vials until the expiration date*
• Punctured vials for up to 6 hours.† Note the date and
time the vial was first punctured. Discard vaccine not
used within this time.
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I took Uber today which is almost the first time. My car was in Service 60 miles away. I started chatting with the driver who is from Cambodia. He is in fifties. He said he did not take vaccine yet. Then he said something about his parents taking them out to keep them fit etc. Then he said he is not...

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On a personal note: I received my second dose of Moderna vaccine on April 1, I am sick since April 2, with flu like symptoms. The gentleman who administered my vaccine had told me that as per his experience, I would become sick for 2-3 days and then get better. Hoping for the best. Gautam I took Mo...

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My understanding is that BB vaccination was run in parallel with stage 3 trials. In other words the people who were given the vaccine under EUA were tracked and their data collected and analyzed. Efficacy of the vaccine is not in question. But the quality control may be and it has to be improved. Co...

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J&J too is facing quality control issues at Baltimore plant - CNN

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Looking at the photo of TN vaccination site, that site could be one of the causes. Crowiding, no social distancing and wearing masks below the nose.

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How much do these private hospitals get paid for administering the vaccine? (My sis and BiL got their shots in HYD at a private hospital and paid only Rs 150 each. Dont know if the Private hospitals get their vaccine dose free from the govt.

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His bibi too tested positive. Jinns did not help.

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On Feb 12, India had 136K active cases and now about 5 weeks later it doubled to 270k. Is it because of new variants? Or is it mismanagement by states like MH and KL where most of the cases are happening? GOI should concentrate on these two or three states that are accounting for more than 75% of th...

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In US the injections are generally given at 90 degree angle while in India they are given at 45 -60 degrees. Is there a reason for this and which is the right way?

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^^^ You have to divide that number by 2 to account for two doses. GoI seems to be more interested in scoring brownie points by giving away huge numbers of doses to others (including pakis :evil:), than take up the vaccination on war-footing, scaling up to 10M/day and let the private sector particip...

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No MoHFW 7pm update for Sunday. Fair enough - maybe no vaccinations are done on Sunday, and if they are, they'll report end of day figures on Monday morning. Cowin App at https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/ shows 100k for Sunday till 9:00 p.m That dashboard site is blocked in the USA. Is it done by GOI?

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Serum Institute may account for half of global supplies in 2021.
Racing Ahead

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My sister and BiL got their first shots (Rs 150/- per person) at a private hospital at HYD. It is AZ vaccine.

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My sister and BiL are getting their shots today at a private hospital in HYD. They regd yday. They stayed in India for the past one year because of Covid19. They are from NY.

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TX is going ahead and dropping its Mask mandate and allowing ALL businesses to function without any restrictions.

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17 wickets and just over 176 runs in a day. First test to be over in TWO days in India? OZ,Pak test was over in Two days in Sharjah.

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May be India should start issuing Vaccine Visas to Pakis.

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