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Indian doctors protest herbal treatments being touted for COVID-19 As India battles a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic amid vaccine shortages, the government continues to push unproven Ayurvedic treatments and disinformation. ByNilanjana Bhowmick Email As India struggles with one of the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks, thousands of doctors across the nation fighting to save patients amid shortages of oxygen, medicine, and vaccines wore black armbands yesterday to call for the arrest of India s most popular yoga televangelist. Baba Ramdev, founder of a traditional medicine empire, is peddling unproven herbal pills and yoga cures for COVID-19, while calling modern drugs “stupid and blaming the country’s hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths on modern medicine.