Dr Fauci’s advice to India amid Covid – 19 situation: Lockdown, Vaccination, Makeshift Hospitals

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Washington: White House Chief Medical Advisor and America’s top public health expert Dr Anthony Fauci on Monday recommended a nationwide lockdown, massive vaccination drive and the construction of a large number of makeshift hospitals in India, he expressed concern over the unprecedented surge Covid – 19 cases in India,

Dr Fauci said about the Covid – 19 surges is serious in India, when you have so many people getting infected, the lack of the capability to take adequate care of everyone; when you have shortages of hospital beds and oxygen and shortages of supplies. The situation really becomes a very desperate in India, which is the reason why we feel it’s important for the rest of the world to help out, to the extent they can, he said.

Dr Fauci also advised to prevent Covid – 19 surges in India, first of all right now, they should start getting as many people vaccinated as they possibly can, with both the vaccines that they develop themselves in India as well as supplies of vaccines that they may be able to procure from other suppliers, be that the United States, be that Russia.

Whatever country is willing help and whenever companies are willing to supply vaccine. A few days ago, I recommended and I believe at least parts of India are doing it, that you shut down the country in lockdown, he said.

Dr Fauci suggesting the lockdown is a better way to prevent Covid – 19 surges for some time. He also quoted examples with other countries, what China did last year, what Australia did when they had an outbreak, what New Zealand did, what other countries did is to completely lock down for a relatively limited period of time. You don’t have to lock down for six months.

You can lock down for a few weeks. Because when you lock down, it is well known, with the experience of other countries that locking down, definitely interferes with the dynamics of the viral outbreak and you could interfere with the continuity and the transmission of infection, Dr Fauci said.

He also recommended taking the help of the armed forces to immediately build makeshift field hospitals. Referring to media reports, he said there is a drastic shortage of hospital beds and people are being taken care of in makeshift arrangements.

So, it would be possible, perhaps, with the help of your own military, to put up field hospitals as you would do in a war time setting, so that people, who are sick and require a hospital bed, will have a hospital bed, he said.

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