With fewer than a 100,000 ICU beds and 20,000 ventilators (about an eighth of what the US has but for a population four times as large) available nationwide, the impact of Covid19 in India could have been catastrophic. Although case-fatality rates have averaged about two to three percent globally, these were in places where the health system is better equipped. India did not have options of either the strong health system and economic resources of Covid19-affected high-income countries, or China’s ability to control population flows within the country.
In a country where 22,500 people die each day across all causes, picking up both Covid19 related deaths and disease loads would have been difficult unless there had been unusually large clusters as was the case in China. With no direct and observable evidence of a public health crisis, it would have been difficult for Indians to forego mass gatherings and to take the message of physical distancing seriously.
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