Why block Indian flights instead of USA flights ?

[dontmissthese]

Current figures:
USA 98k cases per million 1764 deaths per million.
India 13k cases per million 142 deaths per million.

[not_for_sale2024]

I think you need to consider a lot more data than what you have focused on. For example, in the US 69% of the population have been vaccinated and 29% are fully vaccinated. In India 10% have been vaccinated and 1.6% are fully vaccinated. The cases in India are surging while the new cases in the US are decreasing. India is unable to provide accurate data. The situation in India is out of control and nobody knows how bad it really is. But many countries are coming to their aid.

[hannahmallory]

If you look at the number of cases daily,  India has gone through the roof, where as in the US it seems to be stabilizing and much lower than it was at the beginning of the year.  New cases in India are now in the hundreds of thousands per day.

[domino-710]

How many flights are coming daily - from the US.????

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@dontmissthese wrote:

Current figures:
USA 98k cases per million 1764 deaths per million.
India 13k cases per million 142 deaths per million.

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The figures for the last 7 days does not bode well for India:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table

The decision that was announced today is partly based on the numbers of returned travellers from India who are testing positive in hotel quarantine.

Also, the predictions are that within a week the (official) daily new case count will exceed 500,000 AND the health care system is already stretched beyond maximum capacity.

The other thing to think about is the accuracy of the case count.  I think that in most of the countries with high counts that the real count is higher than the reported count.  With the high population in India it is quite possible that the daily count is already much higher than the 300,000+ that is reported.

If India doesn’t get some control over the spread of the virus they will catch the USA in total cases in a matter of months.

That is why flights from India are being ‘paused’ until 15th May.

[4channel]

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@dontmissthese wrote:

Current figures:
USA 98k cases per million 1764 deaths per million.
India 13k cases per million 142 deaths per million.

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India's higher survival rate was explained by a certain well-respected Doctor on Sky News. It is to do with what is done in the early stages apparently. His figures given in late  November, 2020 ...

USA 800 per million

India less than 100 per million

[domino-710]

India's higher survival rate is explained very simply.

India has more than 50% of its population below the age of 25 and more than 65% below the age of 35. It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years, compared to 37 for China and 48 for Japan; and, by 2030, India's dependency ratio should be just over 0.4.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@4channel wrote:

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@dontmissthese wrote:

Current figures:
USA 98k cases per million 1764 deaths per million.
India 13k cases per million 142 deaths per million.

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India's higher survival rate was explained by a certain well-respected Doctor on Sky News. It is to do with what is done in the early stages apparently. His figures given in late  November, 2020 ...

USA 800 per million

India less than 100 per million

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your post talks of survival rates but the figures you have given are confusing.

What are the figures showing?  They can't be survival rates because they are too low per million.  They can't be death rate per million cases because they are too low.

They can't be death rate per million population as they are too low.

Please let us know what the figures you have given show.

[springyzone]

We don't have too many Americans living here whereas we have lots of people of Indian descent, so logically we are going to have more Indian returnees. That's the group we have to worry about most.

But anyone coming in from overseas is still a worry and quite frankly, I'd be stopping all returnees unless they had had the vaccine and even then, they'd go into 14 days of quarantine.

I know there may be compassionate cases but these people are not holidaymakers seeking to return. They are people who were living or working overeas or visiting family and they can shelter in place.

The cost of lockdowns here is too high a price for us to be expected to pay and our whole community should not be expected to put everything at risk for the sake of a few.

Vaccinate before returning. Or stay over there.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@4channel wrote:

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@dontmissthese wrote:

Current figures:
USA 98k cases per million 1764 deaths per million.
India 13k cases per million 142 deaths per million.

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India's higher survival rate was explained by a certain well-respected Doctor on Sky News. It is to do with what is done in the early stages apparently. His figures given in late  November, 2020 ...

USA 800 per million

India less than 100 per million

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the thread title relates to the stopping of flights from India and not case rates back in November 2020.

To be relevant, the most up to date figures should be used to assess the decision to stop flights from India and not stopping flights from the USA.

Here is an up to date snapshot showing the most up to date figures (weekly trends).  I only took this screengrab a short time ago (i.e. on this last day of April 2021) so the figures are more relevant than anything produced in November 2020 (by a ‘certain doctor’) to assess whether the ban on flights from India is warranted compared to non-imposition of bans on flights from USA.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table

I am guessing that you were alluding to the use of hydroxychloroquin in early treatment of cases in India as espoused by a ‘certain doctor on Sky News’ in November 2020, and sprucing the fact that they had less cases per million population.

How is that working out in April 2021? Huh, what you got to say about today?