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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted Vincent Rajkumar

    This is important. The fatality rate is not fixed, it's a function of medical care. The calamitous exponential growth in India combined with collapse of even basic resources is a humanitarian catastrophe. It's so horrible that I can't think clearly about it.https://twitter.com/VincentRK/status/1388494709824315401 …

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    Vincent RajkumarVerified account @VincentRK
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    It's unimaginable. India is showing the true of face of what uncontrolled COVID is capable of doing. So many young people are dying because hospitals are overwhelmed. It's extremely tragic when we lose people who could have been easily saved with just oxygen and dexamethasone.
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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021

        In February of 2020 (a lifetime ago) I got into pandemic writing, mostly just to say that the pandemic outcomes are not fixed. ("Flattening the curve" or even getting ready for mitigations wasn't yet in our mainstream vocabulary then, at least in the US). https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/ …pic.twitter.com/Y2xYHhxsBu

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021

        Intellectually, I see that epidemic curve and it's clear how much tragedy is already baked-in, and how urgent it is for us to act, now. Emotionally, I can't think straight about it. I can't even look at the curve without sheer horror, let alone the news stories or the pictures.😢

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021

        I don't have much more to add to the urgent calls out there, for the world to act. We don't have the full causal picture yet, and there is a grave danger this catastrophic, exponential explosion in India will also occur in countries in the region also with low vaccination rates.

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      1. Andreas Backhaus‏ @AndreasShrugged 1 May 2021
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        I'm just glad he has given up on speculations about Indian resistance against severe COVID because I don't think they were particularly helpful.

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      2. Buzzkill‏ @mrgrimm 1 May 2021
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        Absolute nightmare. Every day I wake up scared. Emailing friends and old coworkers in Bangalore with no response. 50,000 cases in Karnataka Friday. ☹🙏

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021
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        I'm so so sorry.

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      1. Na Sirf Musiqi  🧡‏ @nasirfmusiqi 1 May 2021
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        @VincentRK thread also highlights an urgent demand for making in vaccine privileged countries -- emergency financial aid to help cover the many costs of lockdowns in poorer countries. Essential alongside vaccines and supplies!

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      2. drGarthK‏ @DrGarthK 1 May 2021
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        Something that magnifies the horror of this even more: many people have denied, &continue to deny, the seriousness of COVID, stubbornly complain about or refuse to participate in public health restrictions, and are bitterly opposed to vaccination. Layers of moral catastrophe.

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      3. THEE Joyce Reynolds-Ward, House Moderna X3‏ @JoyceReynoldsW1 1 May 2021
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        Locally, we have parents sneaking around staging proms for their high school kids. Hotspot from the first one already (and that particular high school kicked off a hotspot last fall when they insisted on a homecoming bonfire).

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