The drastic change in the fatality rate across the country with the arrival of covid 19 second wave is due to human carelessness to adhere the guidelines prescribed by WHO. Draft an article on the above statement in about 100-150 words.
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India is suffering the world’s worst Covid-19 crisis. The daily infection rate is more than 300,000; the daily death toll, in excess of 2,000, is very likely an undercount. The health system has broken down, with scarcities in everything from hospital beds to oxygen. The Indian government has restricted vaccine exports and is instead trying to secure supplies from abroad.
You’ve experienced this disaster firsthand as the head of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at the Ashoka University, near New Delhi. Last fall and winter, it looked like India was doing very well in managing its Covid outbreak.
We were still on a rising curve in August, and it seemed like India would cross the 100,000-per-day mark. The peak came in mid-September, when we were pulling roughly 97,000 cases. But then, suddenly the graph started dropping and for the next five months, the graph kept dropping, dropping.
There were some seroprevalence surveys being done — that’s when you take blood samples from the population at random and look for the presence of antibodies — and it appeared that maybe 20% to 30% of the overall population had been exposed. In large cities, like in Mumbai and Delhi, in the areas that were surveyed, it appeared as though 50% to 60% had been exposed. That blindsided us: We started believing that the figures were representative of the entire city, but they weren’t. Most of the infection that we saw in that time was in very crowded slums.