By August 27th, 2020, there will be 6 million confirmed cases in COVID-19, 3.3 million in India, and 2.7 million more in the United States than in India, less than twice. The death toll in the United States is as high as 6.5438+0.8 million, and that in India is 60,000, three times that in the United States. It shows that its mortality rate is much higher than that of India. The other is the speed of treatment. India has treated 2.52 million people, and only 720,000 people have been diagnosed at present, and the cure rate is much higher than that of the United States.
So what? Does this mean that India's medical system is more advanced than that of the United States?
Obviously not.
To put it bluntly, Indian medical care is not only inferior to the United States, but also slightly behind developing countries such as Russia and China, and it is only at a low level in the world. During my stay in COVID-19 this year, there were many negative reports about Indian medical care in the media, such as the shortage of beds, ventilators and medical materials. Even many hospitals do not have air conditioning, and doctors are frequently suffocated by protective clothing at high temperatures.
Previously, due to the shortage of beds, India began to build temporary hospitals with cardboard. Now that a few months have passed, most of these cardboard beds may have collapsed. In contrast, in the United States and other countries, the medical system has not collapsed to the point of building temporary beds with cardboard.
India's high cure rate and low mortality rate are definitely not because the medical system is more advanced than the United States. There are several main reasons:
First, the United States is sacrificing vulnerable groups.
As we all know, Trump's policy, this time COVID-19's anti-epidemic strategy, is obviously to sacrifice the social vulnerable groups in exchange for the interests of capitalists. Washington Post has disclosed it before? The anti-epidemic in the United States is a massacre approved by the government, deliberately sacrificing the elderly, workers, blacks and Hispanics! ? Among them, the elderly and workers are the main targets of their sacrifice.
Second, India's statistics are very bad.
India is a country with a deep-rooted caste system, although the social welfare of the bottom slum group is still not guaranteed in the 2 1 century. In this case, after COVID-19 was infected by slum groups, most people didn't go to the hospital, or couldn't go to the hospital at all, or even were not included in the statistics. So India's data must be very incomplete.
Third, the aging trend.
Although the population of India is1300 million, the growth trend is still very obvious, and the aging trend is not serious. According to previous statistics, its aging rate is basically out of the world 100, far lower than Japan, China, Russian Federation, the United States and other countries.
Aging is also an important factor affecting the mortality rate in COVID-19. The death rate of this virus is not high. According to people's physique and proper medication, the success rate of young people is very high. Most of the deceased were elderly people in poor health, or they were already sick and had complications caused by COVID-19.
So! India has a high cure rate and a low mortality rate, which cannot be considered simply from the medical system. There are also various factors that will affect these data.