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1 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Liquid oxygen—we know a major user of liquid oxygen is actually the space industry. Has anyone asked why can’t major rocket companies & space programs pause their rocket 🚀 launches that use liquid oxygen & divert them to India🇮🇳? Curious.

Asking for 1.3 billion people. #COVID19
2) I’m hearing comments about “medical grade oxygen”, but is that true? And can it not be purified somehow? I’m honestly wondering.
3) if it’s just oxygen tanks and the logistical transport, then surely equipment can be sent to India. But some articles say it’s the supply issue too.

google.com/amp/s/theprint…
4) Clearly limiting industrial liquid oxygen use is a solution. India has already suspended liquid O2 use for steel manufacturing for example.

google.com/amp/s/m.timeso…
5) Articles say industrial oxygen can be purified to medical grade oxygen easily. So that’s not a problem. google.com/amp/s/www.mone…

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3 May
WHERE ARE THE AID? Despite 25 🌏flights loaded with 300 tonnes of emergency #COVID19 relief supplies landing in Delhi 🇮🇳 (5500 oxygen concentrators, 3200 O2 cylinders, & remdesivir) in 5 days, no domestic flights have transported them. Hospitals waiting.🧵amp.scroll.in/article/993973… Image
2) “The emergency aid could save lives. But it seems not to have reached even those who are gasping for oxygen a few km away.
“As far as I know, we have not received anything so far,” said Dr Nutan Mundeja, Director General of Health Services, Delhi government.”
3) “No domestic flights have taken off to carry the supplies to other parts of India, nor have states been informed about their share by the Centre.” Like this one…
Read 20 tweets
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3 May
Sobering—“It is already clear that the virus is changing too quickly, new variants are spreading too easily & vaccination is proceeding too slowly for herd immunity to be within reach anytime soon.”

➡️ Vaccine hesitancy hurts public health.🧵 #COVID19
nytimes.com/2021/05/03/hea…
2) I don’t like this— “daily vaccination rates are slipping, and there is widespread consensus among scientists and public health experts that the herd immunity threshold is not attainable — at least not in the foreseeable future, and perhaps not ever.”
3) “rather than making a long-promised exit, the virus will most likely become a manageable threat that will continue to circulate in US for years to come, still causing hospitalizations and deaths but in much smaller numbers.”

➡️I don’t like waving this surrender flag.
Read 19 tweets
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3 May
Let this sink in—

Feds indicted a Florida man for fraudulently marketing & selling “Miracle Mineral Solution,” a toxic industrial bleach, as a cure for #COVID19.

Meanwhile, exactly 1 year earlier—another Florida voter kinda peddled the same thing on TV—but wasn’t indicted. Yet. ImageImage
2) “Trump took to the WH briefing room and encouraged his top health officials to study the injection of bleach into the human body as a means of fighting Covid. It was a watershed moment, soon to become iconic in the annals of presidential briefings.”
politico.com/news/2021/04/2…
3) “federal grand jury in Miami has returned an indictment charging a Florida family with fraudulently marketing and selling “Miracle Mineral Solution,” a toxic industrial bleach, as a cure for COVID-19, cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, autism, malaria…

fda.gov/inspections-co…
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3 May
Eyes wide shut—this ICU patient with #COVID19 has “barotrauma” from his lungs leaking air into his body. Dr @WesElyMD says patient is *awake* but eyes are swollen shut—AIR from inside his chest leaking out his lungs🫁 through muscles & skin to neck & into face.

➡️Vaccinated yet?
2) he is actually awake.
3) And it’s not just ICUs or deaths… #LongCovid has much broader and longer impacts… read this thread 🧵…
Read 4 tweets
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2 May
India PM Narendra Modi's #COVID19 task force didn’t meet for months. His health minister @drharshvardhan assured the public that 🇮🇳 pandemic had reached the “endgame.”

Now, a 2nd wave has made India the worst-hit country in the world. Shortages abound. 🧵
nytimes.com/2021/05/01/wor…
2) Overconfidence and missteps contributed to the country’s devastating second wave, his critics say, tarnishing the prime minister’s aura of political invulnerability.
3) @narendramodi boasted to global leaders that his nation had triumphed over the coronavirus. India “saved humanity from a big disaster by containing corona effectively,” Mr. Modi told a virtual gathering at the @wef in late January.
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1 May
Overlooked—India’s overworked and underpaid crematorium workers, who often face caste-based discrimination as Dalits, are the invisible warriors of India’s #COVID19 crisis. The poorly paid & underappreciated undertakers in the overflowing crematoriums.🧵
vice.com/en/article/y3d…
2) The Dalit community is considered the lowest in the Hindu caste system, which is over 3,000 years old and divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups dictating their standing in Indian society.
3) They work 12-hour shifts, earning only Rs 10,000 ($134) a month, and can easily be spotted in crematoriums: unlike the families of the deceased, they rarely wear personal protective gear (PPE).
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