A UC Berkeley study has found several surprising insights on how COVID-19 is affecting India, a country of 1.3 billion people. The median hospital stay before death from the virus was five days, compared with two weeks in the United States, possibly because of limited access to health care. The trend in increasing deaths with age seemed to drop off after age 65, perhaps because Indians who live past that age tend to be relatively wealthy and have access to good health care. The study also found that children of all ages can become infected and spread the virus to others. An overwhelming majority of coronavirus cases globally have occurred in resource-poor countries, noted Joseph Lewnard, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the study. But most of the data has come from high-income countries. "It still surprises me that it took until this point for a lot of data to come out of a low- or middle-income country about the epidemiology of Covid," he said.