Imagine a bucket. This is India, with 1.4 Billion people. And imagine a smaller container. This is our healthcare system. Our doctors, nurses, hospitals, beds, ventilators, all of that.

And today, using this bucket and smaller container, let’s try to understand coronavirus in India. Where the epidemic is at, what we are doing about it, and what next during and after lockdown.

First thing to understand is this model. In India, when anyone falls ill, they go to a hospital or a doctor, like water being poured in the small container from the big bucket. If the healthcare system can handle the number of patients easily, people enter, getting treated and cured and healthy people exit. All flowing smoothly, efficiently.

If the number of people falling ill suddenly gets too much for the medical system to handle, too much pours into the smaller container too soon and it spills over. This is literally people dying. This uncontrolled spilling over is what happened in Wuhan in January, what’s happening right now in Italy, Spain, France, Iran and of course in the USA!

Host: Rohit Khanna

Podcast Editor: Mohammad Ibrahim

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