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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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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for those just tuning in, ease in with a read or re read of 1918 books and stories COVID is not flu, but 1918 pandemic flu is a decent enough intro
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Yup, the deaths scale up disproportionately when hospital systems are overwhelmed. Every life is precious but it is even more tragic that younger adults are perishing in these numbers in India.
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This is very similar to how I see global warming. Even what I know intellectually is already baked in is too hard emotionally to grasp. And yet we need to do everything we can to keep the greatest catastrophe in human history from being Armageddon.
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Could a "Battle of Solferino" analogous moment in history lurk within the incredible tragedy? I certainly would hope so.https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/feature/2010/solferino-feature-240609.htm …
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India is breathtaking. We had Italy then New York then Los Angeles, and even then we really didn't know how bad it can get. I hope these images immunize the world against under-estimating the virus.
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The stories about crematoriums and pyres were too much for me
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When the pandemic exposes the inadequacies of your health system it morphs into an all engulfing pestilence. There is an IFR for lack of oxygen and it is sadly a natural history study of COVID playing out for the most vulnerable in India without power or access
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No longer exponential. It is peaking: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/ …
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Just as it did in Brazil a few weeks ago: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/ …
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