India's daily virus cases soar past 100,000 for first time

Experts say the surge is blamed in part on growing disregard for social distancing and mask-wearing in public spaces, including public gatherings.

Are you paying attention Japan?

India is has 4.76% of people vaccinated already.

Japan just 0.76%.

To add more criticism, Japan doesn't vaccine on weekends.

You have more chances of getting vaccinated in Rwanda or India than Japan.

So much for the world's strictest lockdown.

"Modi's government has also allowed a huge month long Hindu festival to go ahead on the banks of the Ganges River in northern Uttarakhand state."

This is ironic considering that the bigoted Modi administration initially tried to blame the spread of COVID in India on Tablighi Jamaat

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52131338

More meaningless news. India has a population of over a billion, so big looking numbers mean nothing. In addition, "cases" for a disease with a mortality rate of close to zero means mean nothing either.

Yep, many cases but how many deaths?

More sensational news when fatalities are 478 and how many aged are in that number?

That piece of news always seems to be missing...

In the UK there were predictions of 4000 a day-never happened!

It is really overblown

What is the population of India?

1.38 Billion?

and mask-wearing in public spaces, including public gatherings.

And I am happy to live in Japan, where almost all japanese are wearing masks, even outdoors and in cars even when nobody is around.

I'd take any statistics with a big grain of salt.

Monty

And I am happy to live in Japan, where almost all japanese are wearing masks, even outdoors and in cars even when nobody is around.

LOL, yeah that part is outlandish. Went to the local snack bar yesterday, and people come in from the outside (totally empty street) with their masks, and then take the mask off to crowd at the counter and sing Enka. Go figure!

This is exactly what experts have been warning about.

If you dont wear masks and dont take precautions the infected will grow faster than the vaccinated.

100k per day is not alarming considering the size of the system.

More sensational news when fatalities are 478 and how many aged are in that number?

Before long I may be classified as aged. And yet, I still have no desire to die of Covid. So what is your point? Aged people are disposable?

LagunaToday  04:27 pm JST

I'd take any statistics with a big grain of salt.

68% of us would agree with you.

Not sure what to make of it yet, but this response to the editor of BMJ brings up some interesting points.

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037/rapid-responses

"Trial experiments and protocols set for COVID-19 vaccination did not take into consideration of many direct and indirect consequences of mass vaccination....

A highly populated country India was having a steady decrease for five months. India did not have any lockdown. Though neighbouring countries Pakistan and Bangladesh experienced the 2nd wave this winter but India did not. India passed major festive seasons where social distancing was very difficult to be maintained, still cases and deaths continued to decline. Surprisingly, vaccination started on 16th January and from around 16th February, India started showing a rise in cases. Now there is a steep rise in deaths too. As India nearly managed the disease without any vaccine or lockdown, it attracted global attention. However, scientists failed to associate any obvious cause for the sudden surge in the recent period when winter passed. India’s neighbouring countries Pakistan and Bangladesh also started a rise in cases in recent period, after vaccination started, though they already experienced a 2nd wave last winter."

Not sure what to make of it yet, but this response to the editor of BMJ brings up some interesting points.

Interesting only on the sense of seeing how people can unshamely express baseless opinions not sustained by any evidence as if they were a sure thing. Specially because he makes an invalid distinction between vaccination and natural infection for the risk of appearance of variants without any reference to prove this is even possible. His "explanation" would work as easily with lots of cases of infection and he doesn't even make an effort to discuss this of why he can eliminate the possibility just because.

Also interesting is how he continuously leaves out very pertinent information that proves his theory mistaken and that would be the first thing a scientist would look for (for example if the increase in deaths have also presented in countries that are delayed in the vaccination, if the deaths are in vaccinated people or not, or even the speed of vaccination). Simply by pretending that vaccinations can act by traveling to the past (else the lack of delay between the vaccination and the beginning of the supposedly related deaths would prove him wrong) is enough to think he is trying to mislead people that do not think more than a few moments about what he says.

In all the examples he mentioned the trends that lead to an increase in deaths began long before any significant portion of the population was even vaccinated. The increase in cases and in deaths was completely expected and that is precisely why vaccination efforts were so important.

And I am happy to live in Japan, where almost all japanese are wearing masks, even outdoors and in cars even when nobody is around.

Too bad cesium 137 masks don't exist. Enjoy your life

ulysses

This is exactly what experts have been warning about.

If you dont wear masks and dont take precautions the infected will grow faster than the vaccinated.

I thought the vaccinated can not get infected any more. So how can the infected grow faster than the vaccinated in a population, except for a short transition time?

Or are you saying the vaccination does not protect from infection?

I thought the vaccinated can not get infected any more.

What gave you that silly idea? Have you not read about the actual efficacy rates of the vaccines? They run over 90%, but none have claimed 100%.

Weird that you'd be confused, when that information is so available, and easily explains away questions you seek to raise.

P. Smith

This is such a difficult question to answer. If the vaccination rate is lower than the infection rate, the number of infections will outstrip the number of vaccinations.

I’m totally spent from all that thinking; I better take a nap.

Instead of trying to be sarcastic, you should have spent the time thinking. Again, how can the infection rate outstrip the vaccination rate continously in a population?

Can it still do that when the vaccination rate reaches 50, 70, or 90%? That is why I made the disclaimer "except for a short transition time".

Please try again after your nap.