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29 Apr, 16 tweets, 8 min read
Dear Dr @drharshvardhan — you are unfit to be the Health Minister of India 🇮🇳.

Please RESIGN.

#COVID19India #COVID19
2) meanwhile, in another country like Jordan 🇯🇴, their health minister resigned after just 7 people died from hospital losing oxygen. reuters.com/article/us-hea…
3) You’ve had many chances to tell the truth about what is happening. But you @drharshvardhan continue to dismiss and downplay.
4) India has been underreporting deaths for many weeks.
5) You have had weeks to rectify the mortality reporting.

Yet you still continue to tout how India has low death rates. That’s no longer scientifically acceptable to hold that stance as a health minister of one of the largest countries, especially a supposed democracy.
6) Now mortality in India 🇮🇳 is projected to hit 1 million by August 2021 (a conservative projection based on reported deaths alone, from @IHME_UW)…

So downplaying deaths is not okay anymore. Especially when many fold more are dying but likely unreported.
7) There are now countless reports of very little oxygen. And many Indian leaders have tried to deny it. And you have said little to nothing to dispel the misinformation.
8) For example, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (leader of 231 million-people north India 🇮🇳 state) is cracking down on people and hospitals that complain about oxygen shortage as “misinfo”. Yet you have not said anything to dispel that. That is abdication of leadership.
9) Then a young man who was trying to save his grandfather’s life begging for oxygen was charged criminally by the UP chief minister, and yet you @drharshvardhan did nothing and said nothing.
10) And India’s #COVID19 humanitarian crisis is not a “domestic issue”—its out of control pandemic is endangering whole WORLD by allowing the virus to spread around 🌏 because of lack of any India containment, and allowing more mutant variants to arise! That’s why I speak out!
11) Hence, calling for @drharshvardhan to either protect India & the world or to resign is *not* “domestic meddling”. India🇮🇳 is a global crisis hotspot and potential incubator of a prolonged pandemic. This is a pandemic damnit! You have direct responsibility. Protect the people.
12) The Indian variants (#B1617 and #B1618) are also extremely risky and worrisome for the future of the global #COVID19 pandemic. Here is a detailed thread 🧵 why…. ⬇️
13) For those conspiracy theorizing—I’m not paid for any tweeting. Heck, I don’t know a single Indian politician. What I do know is bad public health leadership when I see it. And I’ve called out bad COVID management before.

Example, Mexico🇲🇽—I’ve scuffled with their COVID czar:
14) India’s Ministry of Health @MoHFW_INDIA should have also vaccinated all healthcare workers. This tragedy should not have happened.
15) How many infections are there likely currently in India 🇮🇳 per day? Likely **13-14 million new cases per day** says renowned epidemiology institute @IHME_UW.

How many cases officially confirmed? 379k.

covid19.healthdata.org/india?view=inf…
16) Whenever a country let’s this kind of humanitarian disaster happen ⬇️, and then continues to deny the mortality crisis, that country’s leadership @narendramodi @drharshvardhan have failed its citizens.

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