The buzzword of today, a strategical conundrum with varied reactions, emotions, socioeconomic, and health ramifications. What did Lockdown achieve? Favorably affecting 2 parameters the lockdown reduced Infection rate because of less and brief contact. Doubling time from 4 to almost 8 days. India has 0.7 beds for 1000 patients as compared to 3 in the USA and 3.4 in Italy.
If we weren't successful at reducing our doubling rates we could have easily swamped our poor health system. Lockdown-I gave our health system more breathing time to arrange for resources like masks, PPE, ventilators, quarantine facility installation, and medical personnel. There are only 50,000 ventilators available in India. If it were not for the lockdown the projected cases number of positive cases would have been 2,70,360 and deaths from Corona would be 5400 in the first 40 days. Hence lockdown-1 seemed to…
