Herd Immunity In India?

Financial Times: “Nationally, India’s new confirmed coronavirus infections have fallen precipitously, from a peak of nearly 100,000 new infections a day in mid-September to an average of 13,000 to 14,000 a day last week. At the same time, health surveys indicate that there could have been much higher public exposure to the virus than was previously realized.”

“At a time when many other countries are battling second and third waves and alarming new variants of coronavirus, the drop in infections raises a tantalizing prospect — has the pandemic started to burn itself out in India? Some doctors and researchers are beginning to speculate that India’s crowded cities may be approaching the early stages of natural ‘herd immunity’ — even before a vaccine is widely available — causing the spread of the pathogen to abruptly lose steam.”