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27 Apr, 15 tweets, 4 min read
CRACKDOWN—Chief minister Yogi Adityanath sent a harsh message to his UP🇮🇳 state hospitals: keep your mouth shut about oxygen #COVID19 crisis or face action—tells police heads to crack down on hospitals that cite any oxygen shortage or complains to media.🧵
telegraphindia.com/india/coronavi…
2) For people who don’t know, “chief minister” is governor of an entire state in India. And how big is the Uttar Pradesh state that CM Yogi oversees? It’s the largest state with over 231 million people!!! Its population is ~size of Brazil🇧🇷! O2 crisis gag!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pra…
3) senior health department official said.
“The chief minister said that action must be initiated against hospitals that put up notices saying they had no oxygen. He said there should be a probe to establish whether they deliberately tried to create panic”
4) Many hospitals in Lucknow and other parts of the state had put up notices at their gates over the weekend declaring an oxygen shortage and advising families of Covid patients to shift them elsewhere.
5) An executive of a private hospital in Lucknow, who asked not to be named, said: “I invite him (Adityanath) to visit every hospital and audit the oxygen supply. If he does so honestly, he would find himself guilty of having left the hospitals and the people in the lurch.”
6) He added: “The chief minister has no problem that graveyards and cremation grounds are running out of space. All he wants is that the hospitals fulfil his agenda of hiding the truth.”
7) Several doctors from the Lakhimpur Kheri, Firozabad, Bareilly and Meerut districts on Monday told local reporters they continued to face an oxygen crisis.
Dr Sanjay Jain of Anand Hospital, Meerut, said: “We need 300 to 400 cylinders a day but are getting only 150.”
8) “A government doctor from the Firozabad district hospital, seeking anonymity, said: “We don’t have oxygen. When we demand 100 cylinders, officials give us 10. The patients’ relatives are restless and are taking them to other places.”
9) On Saturday, 10 hospitals in Agra were forced to discharge all their Covid patients —about 1,000 in all — because of a lack of oxygen, Dr O.P. Yadav, district president of the Indian Medical Association, had said.
10) Dr Surendra Singh of Yashwant Hospital, Agra, had told reporters on Saturday: “We were promised 50 oxygen cylinders a week but the government gave us only 5 cylinders over the last 10 days. We discharged our (Covid) patients when we had no option left.” ⚠️
11) The Covid epidemic is across India. Hard to deny that there is an O2 crisis whenever even the richest hospitals in India are suffering O2 shortages.
12) Meanwhile black market prices for O2 is skyrocketing.
13) the crackdown in India 🇮🇳 on those tweeting about need for oxygen continues.
14) Solid editorial cartoon on the India media crackdown.
15) Did India 🇮🇳 political leaders threaten to order the seizure of property of anyone who spoke out about oxygen shortage? Oh yes…

So the cartoon above is accurate.

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28 Apr
My god—over 25,000 drums of@toxic waste found dumped on the ocean floor off coast of California. The number of drums laced with the pesticide DDT far exceeded expectations. “It was hard to wrap my head around the density”. And they are likely leaking. 🧵
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3) The latest images also suggest that a ticking time bomb lurks 3,000 feet below the surface.

Some of the barrels may have been languishing for as long as 70 years, Dr. Valentine estimated. Image
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28 Apr
Crackdown—Police in Uttar Pradesh filed a criminal case on a man who used Twitter to appeal for oxygen cylinder for his grandfather, for allegedly circulating a rumor with the intent to cause fear or alarm. UP chief minister launched crackdown this week.🧵
scroll.in/latest/993484/… Image
2) The police claimed that the man was “spreading misleading information”. Sub-inspector Virendra Singh of the Ramganj police station claimed that Yadav provided false information on oxygen supply and the coronavirus to target the Uttar Pradesh government.
3) “It was found during the inquiry that because of the accused’s false tweet, several persons made allegations against the government,” Singh told the newspaper.

indianexpress.com/article/cities…
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28 Apr
Variant? “The current 🇮🇳 wave of #COVID19 has a different clinical behavior. It’s affecting young adults. It’s affecting families. It’s a new thing altogether. Two-month-old babies are getting infected.” Also many reports of reinfections/breakthroughs.🧵
nytimes.com/2021/04/28/wor… Image
2) “As supplies run dangerously low and hospitals forced to turn away sick, scientists are trying to determine what role variants might be playing. They are working with precious little data. India, like many other countries, has not built up a robust system to track viruses.”
3) “India’s worries have focused on a homegrown variant called B.1.617. The public, the popular press and many doctors have concluded that it is responsible for the severity of the second wave. “
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27 Apr
Heart-wrenching—A mother in her 50s dies of #COVID19 after she had low oxygen. But there’s no ambulance, so her dead body is carried by motorbike—by her son & son-in-law, her corpse wedged in-between her sons, ferrying her home. Heart-breaking for India 🇮🇳.
2) This is a true story.

“In a heart-wrenching development in Andhra Pradesh, due to the non-availability of ambulance, a woman's dead body had to be taken to her native village on a motorbike.
The shocking incident took place in Kasibugga town in Srikakulam district on Monday.
3) “A video showing the deceased woman on a motorbike, wedged between her son-in-law and son, has left netizens shocked at the prevailing situation in the state.
The victim, aged around 50 years, belonged to the Mandasa Mandal in Srikakulam district.
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27 Apr
MASK GUIDANCE UPDATE—Americans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus no longer need to wear masks outdoors if they’re walking, running, hiking or biking alone, with members of their household, or if attending small outdoor gatherings, CDC says.
nytimes.com/2021/04/27/hea…
2) CDC stopped short of telling those people that they could shed their masks altogether in outdoor settings — citing the worrying risk that remains for transmitting the coronavirus, unknown vaccination levels among people in crowds and still high-caseloads in some regions
3) But the C.D.C. is maintaining advice on other safety measures, saying vaccinated adults should continue wearing masks and staying six feet apart in large public spaces, like outdoor performance or sports events, indoor shopping malls and movie theaters.
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2) “In an example of how misinformation threatens the nation’s effort to vaccinate enough Americans to get the coronavirus under control, Ms. Centner, who has frequently shared anti-vaccine posts on Facebook...
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