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2020-07-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

What Made Asia's Largest Slum a Success Model for Treating COVID-19?

[American Thinker] Dharavi is no ordinary slum. It is one of the densest in the world, housing more than a million people. It provided some of the background for the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire.

Dharavi contains pockets where as many as 650,000 people are crammed into 2.5 square kilometers. In comparison, New York City has only around 95,605 people for 2.5 square kilometers.

India feared the worst when a cluster outbreak of COVID-19 was reported in Dharavi. It could have become the biggest COVID-19 disaster zone in the world. But by using proactive measures, Dharavi contained the virus.

Media around the world, like the Los Angeles Times, have reported the success. Even the World Health Organization praised Dharavi.

Reports credit the huge turnaround to various factors. Most focused on Dharavi’s use of widespread testing and contact tracing. One is the use of an anti-malarial drug. But they ignored the policy most responsible. Indian doctors used Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for prophylaxis (preventive) treatment -- the same drug the American media have politicized.

Dharavi’s COVID-19 infection rate dropped drastically from April through June. In July, new infections were very low, almost reaching zero on July 9.

Officials have credited this turnaround to "A combination of hydroxychloroquine, vitamin, and zinc tablets along with homeopathic medicines."

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#1 HCQ, vitamin tablets help Mumbai cops beat Covid-19

In a statement released here, the Mumbai police said today that not a single member of the force tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. Of the 1871 personnel who tested positive for the virus so far, 853 have recovered and will shortly report for duty. The police force has lost 21 personnel including one officer to the virus. Most of the victims were from the constabulary, according to the statement.

According to senior police officials, the force managed to protect the health of its personnel by first asking those above the age of 55 and those with co-morbidities to stay at home. Members of the force who were deployed in sensitive areas like Dharavi, a major hotspot for the virus, were given hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic in addition to vitamins and zinc tablets.

"The fatality rate among the police personnel in Mumbai is just one per cent. Apart from providing them with HCQ and other medicines, we have equipped our men with adequate PPEs, masks, gloves and sanitisers. We have also provided chemicals and spraying equipment to sanitise police stations," says Joint Commissioner of Police Naval Bajaj.

Mumbai's police commissioner Parambir Singh had earlier told reporters that he and senior officers too were on HCQS tablets under the supervision of medical experts. Sources say more than 4,500 police personnel, or 10 per cent of the city's police force, have been prescribed HCQS as a prophylactic since the past six weeks.

According to Bajaj all the police personnel from the Dharavi police station have recovered from the virus and will rejoin duty shortly.

So far 71 people from Dharavi, the country's largest slum, have died from the virus. However there have been no deaths from this area in the last week. More than 1900 people tested positive for the virus here, according to health department officials.

And that's from 06June.

Posted by KBK 2020-07-22 10:15|| 2020-07-22 10:15|| Front Page Top

#2 There, possibly, was another component to that success.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-22 11:02|| 2020-07-22 11:02|| Front Page Top

#3 When you're desperate, you'll try anything. Sometimes you get lucky and it works.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-22 13:31|| 2020-07-22 13:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Cholera and malaria weeded out the week immune systems already, as well.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-07-22 16:44|| 2020-07-22 16:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Poverty.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-22 23:15|| 2020-07-22 23:15|| Front Page Top

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