Thread by @fascinatorfun

India looked like it had beaten Covid, but cases are now skyrocketing. What changed?

“Loved ones wailing outside hospitals, ambulances queued up with patients, crematoria and graveyards drowning in dead bodies, failed resuscitations” independent.co.uk/asia/india/cov…

Families scrambling for beds, plasma, and even basic medical supplies such as oxygen, stretchers and ventilators: these are common scenes witnessed across India.

Families Sending out pleas on Twitter for oxygen, drugs, beds.

What changed from just three months ago?

Maharashtra was painted as an outlier a few weeks ago.

Now hospitals out of capacity. Reports of doctors not even able to find beds for their own.

No longer. It is worse now than at any point last year.

What has changed?

While there remains insufficient data to attribute the new wave to any one cause, scientists say an indigenous variant of the virus called B.1.617 is likely to be fuelling the flames.

This coupled with a fatigue with safety precautions that’s seen a return to crowding & a reluctance to wear masks across the country.

In fact they’ve got the lot

🇬🇧 B117, 🇿🇦 B1.1351, 🇧🇷 P1.

A perfect storm

Also perfect conditions to make the virus mutate-learn from its peers

And out brilliant PM who has tripped over his c*** several times already, ignoring obvious warnings of danger, thus pushing up our killing fields, is proposing making a business trip to India in the next couple of weeks.

With his team.

What an example!

What a massive cock-up.