Wuhan Coronavirus Thread

Is coronavirus a biological warfare agent released by China?

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US to send Covid-19 aid worth $100 million to India, first flight to land today
The Joe Biden administration has also redirected its own order of AstraZeneca manufacturing supplies to India, which will allow it to make over 20 million doses of vaccine

The US has dispatched its first batch of Covid-19 relief materials to India, including oxygen cylinders and regulators, Rapid Diagnostic Test kits and N95 masks. The White House has said the US would be sending supplies worth more than $100 million to India and "meet the urgent health needs of the Indian people".
In a statement on Wednesday, US Agency for International Development (USAID) said, "The United States deployed the first of several emergency Covid-19 relief shipments to India. Arriving in New Delhi from Travis Air Force Base on the world's largest military aircraft, the shipment includes 440 oxygen cylinders and regulators."
"In addition, on this first flight, USAID has sent 960,000 Rapid Diagnostic Tests to identify infections early to help prevent the community spread of Covid-19, and 100,000 N95 masks to protect India’s frontline healthcare heroes," the statement said.

The Joe Biden administration has also redirected its own order of AstraZeneca manufacturing supplies to India, which will allow it to make over 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also locally procured oxygen cylinders and will deliver them to support hospital systems in India.

The US is also providing the first tranche of a planned 20,000 treatment courses of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir to help treat hospitalised Covid-19 patients.

"The United States has stood shoulder to shoulder with the people of India for more than 70 years, and will continue to fight the Covid-19 pandemic together," said the statement.
"Just as India sent assistance to the United States when US hospitals were strained early in the pandemic, the United States is now helping India during its time of need," it further said.
Immediate US Emergency Covid-19 Assistance
The United States is providing:
Oxygen Support:
An initial delivery of 1,100 cylinders will remain in India and can be repeatedly refilled at local supply centers, with more planeloads to come. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also locally procured oxygen cylinders and will deliver them to support hospital systems in coordination with the Government of India.
Oxygen Concentrators: 1700 oxygen concentrators to obtain oxygen from ambient air. These mobile units provide options for flexible patient treatment.
Oxygen Generation Units (PSA Systems): Multiple large-scale units to support up to 20 patients each, and additional mobile units will provide an ability to target specific shortages. A team of U.S. experts will support these units, working hand-in-hand on the ground with Indian medical personnel.

Personal Protective Equipment: 15 million N95 masks to protect both patients and Indian health care personnel.
Vaccine-Manufacturing Supplies: The U.S. has re-directed its own order of Astra Zeneca manufacturing supplies to India. This will allow India to make over 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs): 1 million rapid diagnostic tests the same type used by the White House — to provide reliable results in less than 15 minutes to help identify and prevent community spread.
Therapeutics: The first tranche of a planned 20,000 treatment courses of the antiviral drug remdesivir to help treat hospitalized patients.
Public Health Assistance: US CDC experts will work hand-in- hand with India’s experts in the following areas: laboratory, surveillance and epidemiology, bioinformatics for genomic sequencing and modeling, infection prevention and control, vaccine rollout, and risk communication.
US support for India from the outset of the pandemic:
The United States and India have closely worked together to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. US Covid-19 assistance has reached more than 9.7 million Indians across more than 20 states and union territories, providing life-saving treatments, disseminating public health messages to local communities; strengthening case-finding and surveillance; and mobilizing innovative financing mechanisms to bolster emergency preparedness:

- Partnered with more than 1,000 Indian healthcare facilities to strengthen preparedness, including training of over 14,000 people on infection prevention and control.
- Helped keep more than 213,000 frontline workers safe — including risk mitigation training for doctors, nurses, midwives, community volunteers, sanitation workers, and others who are actively responding to COVID-19 in India.
- Launched joint public messaging with UNICEF on COVID prevention that has reached more than 84 million people.
- Provided 200 state-of-the-art ventilators to 29 healthcare facilities in 15 states to care for critically-ill COVID-19 patients.
US-India health partnership: Seven decades strong
- For seventy years, US public health experts from across the government, including USAID, HHS, CDC, FDA, and NIH, have worked in partnership with Indian officials to improve the health of India’s most vulnerable communities and the well-being of its people.
- Over the last 20 years, US foreign assistance to India has exceeded $2.8 billion, including more than $1.4 billion for health care.
- The United States, India, and other partners have worked together to reduce new HIV infections by 37 percent between 2010 and 2019.
- Since 1998, the United States and India have worked together to combat tuberculosis (TB) through improved patient-centered diagnosis, treatment and prevention, helping treat 15 million people with the disease.
- In the last five years, the United States has helped 40 million pregnant women receive vital health information and services.
- The United States, in partnership with the Government of India and World Health Organization, has supported initiatives at the District, State and National level to build frontline disease detection capacity.
- The United States and India are working together to advance global health security and fight outbreaks before they become pandemics.
 

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confirmation bias is intrinsically built into your definition of a leader, "leaders" are built by news media narrative these days. in the current discourse of political binaries, there cannot be a "leader" who can lead all, there will always be a another group who are willing to undermine "leader" at any cost including at the cost of human lives.
Perhaps I'm naive. But I have these old ideals of what leaders should do in power, at least most of the time or during generational challenges.
 

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I agree that the American halt in API supply to India was wrong, and most likely masterminded by the Chinese COmmunist Party (CCP) controlled leftists in the first place. But it's also true that after the US losing close to 600,000 lives to Covid, it was much more politically feasible to do this at a time when over a thousand Americans were still dying each day, and India seemed much better off at the time in terms of deaths.
But it is a misreading to put all Americans under one camp. There are very strong factions supporting India, and blaming the entire US as a whole does not help their cause; especially at a time when they are trying to gather medical supplies for India, which are being donated as opposed to CCP overcharging by 40 to 60 percent while cancelling cargo flights. And the US is also donating vaccines from its own stockpile to India. The trick is to keep the factions friendly to you in power through support. India has to learn to play this game in order to come out on top. I think the potential for a strong US-India alliance is still there, because more Americans are waking up to reality of how evil the CCP really is.
Speaking of idealism, CCP is far worse than the US. Their vaccines don't work, and they will eventually get their pound of flesh through backroom deals that ensure the country becomes debt trapped. Often even American leftist media now shows CCP to be some kind of savior, when it is actually pure evil.

PS, the CCP has currently tripled the cost of drug precursors (APIs) it sells to India in the middle of the pandemic. So while the west may be far from perfect, India needs help right now due to CCP backstabbing India in multiple ways.
 
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i know everyone has their agenda and everything , but just think

this is just the 2nd wave , there is gonna be a 2x-4x larger 3rd wave 2-3 months from now

i hope our dearest leaders will be well prepared then.

 

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Check out Germany's stats.

5 times more cases than a state like MP which has almost equivalent population.
9 times more death than MP.
Even if the deaths are hidden by a factor of 2 to 3 it will be no where near close to Germany.

We have fared of relatively well.
Liberal left ecosystem gives unconditional support selling all conscience to their own .. recent bengal violence , maharastra covid situation are example . Same is nt true for right .
 

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Sick of listen to this argument again and again. While it’s a fact that health is a state subject, general people are not aware of it and frankly they don’t even care abt whose affair it is. When family members and relatives die, they look and blame at the top most administration of the country. BJP supporters can legitimately give this reason and dodge the criticism but for general people who has nothing to do with daily Rendi Rona of Indian politics, it’s the govt at the centre who is at fault.
That is why people deserve no sympathy, nothing matters to them when they go to vote nor when they analyze consequences and make reasonable choice next time based on common sense and evidence. Keep blaming top, if they did that then congress would not have survived 70 years or are you saying no issues for past 70 years when they ruled? Certainly I expected better prep from center especially intelligence failure on public health and communication. Something weird how Modi and Shah have gone off the stage vs 1st wave. This is like in US cities where BLM commits violence but it happens in cities that are overwhelmingly left, democratic and ruled by them and a lot have black or female mayors for decades but they blames Trump?
 

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Sick of listen to this argument again and again. While it’s a fact that health is a state subject, general people are not aware of it and frankly they don’t even care abt whose affair it is. When family members and relatives die, they look and blame at the top most administration of the country. BJP supporters can legitimately give this reason and dodge the criticism but for general people who has nothing to do with daily Rendi Rona of Indian politics, it’s the govt at the centre who is at fault.
Only the time will tell. You want to trust Time and CNN please go ahead.
 

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Anybody on laptop?

dig up how many articles were written in Indian media about second wave between nov & feb, feb to may.
 

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Folks should look up the Hope-Simpson Curve and understand the seasonality of viruses. Vaccines may help to a small extent, but do not discount Antibody Dependent Enhancement or Pathogenic Priming, which is basically when you get vaccinated, virus mutates, and then your body reacts much more stronger to the mutated virus and you end up dead. That's why there have never been Coronavirus vaccines in the past. They think they solved this issue using mRNA and with annual "booster" shots, but the reality is the virus, as an RNA virus with nothing to ensure it's fidelity, can mutate much faster than a vaccine can get produced.

The single best preventive solution is Vitamin D supplementation. The next best is exercise and a healthy diet. Beyond that, there's little that can be done (the next biggest risk factor is age).
 

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Only the time will tell. You want to trust Time and CNN please go ahead.
I explicitly said that I didn’t read the article. I only pointed to the title. Inside article is that typical hit job. But the title is legit.
 

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DCGI gives emergency approval of DRDO-developed anti-Covid oral drug


The Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (Inmas) in collaboration with Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad, developed an anti-Covid-19 therapeutic application of the drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG). The third phase of the clinical trial results have shown that this molecule helps in faster recovery of hospitalised patients and reduces supplemental oxygen dependence. Higher proportion of patients treated with 2-DG showed RT-PCR negative conversion in patients infected with coronavirus.


 

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Hundreds of Israelis Chant 'Om Namah Shivaya', Pray For India's Recovery Against Covid | Watch

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As the deadly second wave of Covid-19 continues to make life difficult for people in India, many countries have expressed solidarity and extended humanitarian help in the form of medical equipment and supplies. Israel too aided India by sending two shipment of oxygen concentrators and respirators on Thursady. Not only that, people of Israel also extended sentimental support by praying for our well-being and hoped for India’s fast recovery against Covid-19. On Friday, a video went viral in which hundreds of people gathered together in one place were seen chanting ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ for India’s betterment. Also Read - Israel's First Consignment of Oxygen Generators Arrives in Delhi

 

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