Unpredictable severe Covid second wave in India: Lessons learned a thread: Have been reading up on this - tried to restrict to unbiased opinions - excluded professional complainers and those who have an axe to grind. Here is what I learnt for whatever it is worth. First of all...
...as I have argued elsewhere I do not agree with the simplistic analysis, that the severity of second wave was predictable. Now over to the lessons learned and what would have been done better. One: We could have better monitored the so called R of Covid ( reproduction rate)...
...in each district, state and nationwide and pro-actively tune our Covid policy based on that - there seems to have been let down of guard here. This is a global best practice. Second: We were not as good we should have been in genomic sequencing of new mutations of virus, a...
...real concern. Third: We did not have a nation wide standard centralised triage system for patients ( a system which tells a doctor who needs home care, normal bed, ICU or Oxygen - Maharashtra has done better here, others very bad). Fourth: Inability to do clever, pro-active...
..contracts with vaccine companies and giving states the freedom to do same. Fifth: Not great examples set by all political parties by holding election rallies. And central government being careless in allowing religious gatherings. Hope we will not ignore these lessons. 🙏
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