How did India beat covid-19?

It’s said

Yeah, it’s said.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/10/29/how-did-india-beat-covid-19

My first thought is that there is more to the article than the simple headline. Unfortunately I can’t read the whole article because I’m not subscribed to the newspaper, and the part that I could read only sums up the idea that India has basically put the virus under control and it ends with the question “how did India beat Covid?” I’m waiting for other jellies who can access to the rest of the article (and who is not @omtatsat) to evaluate the news.

First, the Foreign Policy article you’ve provided in the OP is about New Delhi, and the Economist article is about New Delhi and Mumbai. Neither is about India as a whole.

Second, the Foreign Policy article notes that vaccinations played a huge role:

“What caused the dip, I asked the assistant? He had been on the front line.

He shrugged. ‘Delhi has been good with the vaccination drive.’

This was true. Indians have been getting their jabs at a rate that seems miraculous in Germany, where uptake has dwindled alarmingly.”

Third, the virus “burning itself out” was at the cost of hundreds of thousands, and perhaps even millions, of lives. As a separate Foreign Policy article notes, the Indian government is severely underreporting the country’s COVID-19 death toll. And here’s how the article from the OP describes life in India during the “burning out” period:

In April and May of this year, Armageddon seemed at hand there. Sirens ringing through the night, crematoriums stretched beyond capacity, dead bodies dumped in rivers because there wasn’t enough space to burn them or wood to burn them with.

Waiting the virus out isn’t beating it so much as it is hoping to be one of the statistical outliers. Or are you under the impression that the 50,000 Carthaginians who survived Rome’s siege of their city were actually the victors?

When you answer, keep in mind that the survivors were all taken prisoner and then sold into slavery.

Don’t know, unless their government mandated vaxes. Although that would shock me, in a nation often lauded as “The Worlds Largest Democracy”. But a desperate situation sometimes requires desperate action.

@Nomore_lockout
India 450,000 deaths. Population 1.38 milliard
USA 748,000 deaths, Population 329 million. No mandate, The facts explain themselves

@omtatsat Again, your own source (Foreign Policy) states that India is underreporting COVID-19 deaths. Their actual death toll is estimated to be around four million.