The situation in India is dire and all variants associated with a surge need attention. But this man is 88 years-old, diabetic, two prior heart surgeries, and still had only mild symptoms (mild fever was reported) and is hospitalized out of caution likely because he is former PM.https://twitter.com/GabrielScally/status/1384452978086596616 …
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There is already encouraging reports about vaccine efficacy out of India—breakthroughs appearing to be extremely rare despite dominance of variants. But that doesn't lessen the reality and the severity of their crisis. Exponential, unchecked growth is a crisis. ht
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Yeah exactly. What I interpreted, anecdotally, as a story about how good these vaccines are turned into something people are sharing as concern about the vaccines. https://twitter.com/ac8786/status/1384871597299937282 …
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Given the depth of India's crisis, maybe we can reflect a bit on how much of the focus has been on the potential, speculative threat to us in the vaccine-rich wealthy countries (VARIANTS ON PLANES!) rather than what can we do, immediately, to help them.
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My guess: No "escaped a catastrophe before" is a guarantee, and our explanations were too speculative. I think neither Brazil nor India had herd immunity (seroprevalence studies weren't random) and *every* nonimmune (unvaccinated) population is under risk. https://twitter.com/korystotesbery/status/1384874124376514562 …
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We don't have to wait for full details of variant analyses or focus on potential effects here to recognize this: the crisis in India is really, really, really dire and has the potential to be the worst case in the world. Our lack of robust global response is heartbreaking.
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I thought I saw a 12.5 percent positivity jump in some locality yesterday.
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India’s biggest hospitals are begging for oxygen supply on twitter. the hospital system has collapsed.
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The government had 8 months to act, but they were collecting bids. A massive failure.
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Why now? India had all the reasons before for massive COVID outbreak but was a mystery in that it didn't. Why so late?
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India already registered 50%-60% positivity for antibodies in sero-prevalence surveys. The better question is why so many *hospitalizations and severe cases* now. Which is hard to answer in a comforting fashion
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