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24 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If COVID infection rate is 0.04% after first dose of vaccination, getting the first shot to everyone in highly dense areas may be the best strategy for India right now.

We need a tsunami of vaccinations right now.

Why wait until 1st May? Is our vaccine supply getting 100% used? Image
Even if you doubt the data, there’s no doubt that:

- Even one dose is much better (at preventing death and severe hospitalisation) than no doses

- There’s no cure for COVID, so vaccination is the best strategy for preventing total number of future deaths
Sadly the vaccination numbers are falling, at a time when they need to rise exponentially.

scroll.in/article/993096…
Good to read that 17 Indian states will vaccinate their citizens for free.

More power to local governments!

hindustantimes.com/india-news/the…

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A friend’s brother requires immediate hospitalisation; the infection of his lungs is close to 50%, fever levels are high at 103.

He’s in Delhi.

The doctor has advised immediate hospitalisation.

Know any leads?

#CovidSOS #Delhi
It seems entire Delhi-NCR has 0 ICU beds, and while searching for them realised so many more people are looking for the same.

This is a terrible situation.

Anyone leads beyond Delhi? Cities around 2-3 hours away should be okay too.
Still nothing.

Our group of 10 friends has been trying non-stop for last 3 hours.

Feeling extremely angry.

If not ICU, even normal hospital beds will do as blood transfusion is most urgent.

Anything?
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21 Apr
Prediction: most countries will experiment with launching their own digital 💸 currencies.

(a short thread)
1/ What’s a digital currency?

It’s programmable money directly issued from the central bank to citizens.

Right now, banks are intermediaries and central bank doesn’t issue money directly to citizens.

Read more here:
2/ The programmability of a digital currency is what makes it so appealing.

It can allow the central bank of a country to achieve their wet dream: precisely control the economy.

They will do it by precisely controlling the money in your hands.
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20 Apr
Depression is terrible, and severe forms of it could make people suicidal.

New research is finding that psychedelics are much more effective than anti-depressants at treating depression.
1/ For example, this randomised trial study that just came out found 70% of patients reduced depression symptoms within a week (as compared to anti depressant with 33% efficacy)

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2/ Unfortunately, even though evidence is accumulating on benefits of these drugs, they are still classified as Schedule 1 drugs in India.

Which means not even medical research is allowed.

See this by @Somaa_org

somaa.org/copy-of-campai…
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19 Apr
My moral code.

(a long 🧵thread)
1/ Lately, I’ve been feeling a lack of a well-deliberated, explicit moral code.

The world is changing really fast – we have Elon Musk trying to set up a human colony on Mars while Earth’s bio-ecosystem is degrading by the day.
2/ So, should I support the investment of resources into making Mars habitable while Earth is gradually becoming unhabitable?

This, obviously, isn’t the only question.

Every day, I feel like I need to decide which way to swing on controversial topics.
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13 Apr
There's a 💊 drug (named Zolgensma) that costs $2.5mn (Rs 18 crore). Currently the world's costliest drug.

Why is it so expensive?

(a tiny thread)
1/ It treats a rare genetic disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).

SMA is a horrible disease that kills 90% of babies before the age of 2.

Until Zolgensma, it was untreatable.
2/ The disease incidence rate is extremely low.

For example, in the US there would be only 400 new cases per year.

(Such diseases are called rare or orphan diseases)
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12 Apr
Crypto is the future of our society.

(a 🧵 thread on my podcast with @balajis)
1/ Balaji is a deep thinker on crypto and its implications.

Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he’s believes crypto technologies such as bitcoin will change the world the say way Internet did.

Here's the podcast:

2/ We touch on a lot of topics in the podcast.

• How to assess a strange new thing's potential
• How technologies rise and fall
• How to tell what's a fad and what's real
• How to identify nascent technology that will change the world
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