Thread by @DoomsdayDebunks

So sad. India states are reluctant to act, some ruled out doing lockdowns, all they are doing is night time curfews, not enough, and in Delhi a 6 day lockdown. Yet every state has exponential growth of COVID and many will be in the same situation as Delhi within a few weeks.

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1385848456284155906

Vaccination will make a huge difference, but India has many weeks to months before it has widespread vaccination. The UK and Israel show where it is headed once there is widespread vaccination. 10 days after 1st dose for vaccines to start working.
ourworldindata.org/explorers/coro…

worldometers.info/coronavirus/co… and worldometers.info/coronavirus/co… and worldometers.info/coronavirus/co… for the cases per day.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, we'll stop this pandemic. We stop it far faster if we #DOITALL & work together to increase access to vaccines fast in a global initiative. Dr Tedros:

https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1385655176892141572

Article:
nytimes.com/2021/04/22/opi…
Video:

There is much positive going on, some positives:

AstraZeneca and Novavax both support technology transfer.
science20.com/robert_walker/…
Moderna says it won't enforce licenses for the duration of the pandemic.
blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/21/mod…

The university of Texas has licensed its Hexapro tweak for free to the 80 weakest economies, which gives them a head start on the second generation of vaccines more stable at higher temperatures
debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/New-vaccine-fo…

We have never had such a fast roll out of any vaccine and lots of capacity online later this year and into 2022, but we can do it so much faster if we set our minds to it and removed the barriers to vaccine technology sharing, to stop this pandemic fast.
nytimes.com/2021/04/22/opi…

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