They missed out on a small bit of information that would explain their question. From NPR:
The Mystery Of India's Plummeting COVID-19 Cases
Last September, India was confirming nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into an unprecedented recession.
But four months later, India's coronavirus numbers have plummeted. Late last month, on Jan. 26, the country's Health Ministry confirmed a record low of about 9,100 new daily cases — in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. It was India's lowest daily tally in eight months. On Monday, India confirmed about 11,000 cases.
"It's not that India is testing less or things are going underreported," says Jishnu Das, a health economist at Georgetown University. "It's been rising, rising — and now suddenly, it's vanished! I mean, hospital ICU utilization has gone down. Every indicator says the numbers are down."
Scientists say it's a mystery. They're probing why India's coronavirus numbers have declined so dramatically — and so suddenly, in September and October, months before any vaccinations began.
India trusts its citizenry to not be dumb. Many drugs are sold over the counter to anyone who walks into the pharmacy and asks. Drugs like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine for example.
India followed the advice of the World Health Organization and watched what we were doing in the United States (paging Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci to the white courtesy telephone please). They then tried some of the anecdotal cures, found that these actually work. That they are cheap and available over the counter in India. Ka-Boom. No more Wuhan Flu.
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