Images from the horrendous #COVID19 catastrophe in #India must start with #SuperSpreader events in early April. Religious festivals were not dampened, and there was no mask enforcement.
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2/ And political campaigning was pursued vigorously in early April, with huge throngs and no mask requirements.
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3/ Fueled by a double-mutant variant strain of #SARSCoV2 on top of those #SuperSpreader events, India's #COVID19 epidemic soared at terrifying speed, all over the country, but especially in New Delhi. Burned-out healthcare workers feared for their lives.
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4/ Soon, patients swamped the nation's hospitals and clinics, eventually to such saturation that they perished in hospital parking lots or lay on the clinic floors.
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5/ Unable to keep up with the massive death toll, morgues stacked bodies where they could....
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6/ And then, from one end of the country to the other, the stench of cremations filled the air, as formal crematoriums could no longer handle the burden and open pyres were erected.
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We weep for India in her time of nightmarish grief and fear.
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