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6 May, 13 tweets, 5 min read
I cry for India: “Those who are lucky will survive—whoever has to die will die”.

Hidden camera of 🇮🇳 hospital: horrible ICU conditions, shortages, long lines of sick. @BBC follows a family that lost a 35-year old mother of 2.

HT @yogital @NicolaCareem
2) Rundown hospital “conditions the government doesn’t want people to see. So we filmed secretly. Covid patients being treated amid other illnesses, cared for by their own family.” With toilets overrun in ICU.
3) “the people here are angry. The PM @narendramodi makes announcements on TV, but nothing reaches us”.
4) The supply delivery crisis is actually quite real. Many worldwide donated supplies have not gotten to hospitals, especially rural hospitals, quickly enough. Lots of reasons. See thread 🧵
5) rural villager: “We are afraid because everyday people are dying here. Whereas we used to have 1 death every 6 months to a year”.

⚠️let that sink in…
6) @yogital: “they have no hope they will get help from anywhere”

Villager: “there is little we can do.”
7) villager: “Those who are lucky will survive—whoever has to die will die”.

I’m going to remember that quote until the day I die. It just that searing. 😢
8) “This is the reality all over India 🇮🇳. We will never know how many have died of the virus in this country”.
9) the world only really started hearing about India when the crisis hit wealthy Delhi.

Earlier: “Covid-19 has hit this country with a ferocity not seen before...but not unexpected either".

10) Nepal now following India’s trail of tears… almost 50% positivity in tests. “Rampant” levels of #COVID19 everywhere.

theguardian.com/world/2021/may…
11) “One of the worst-hit areas outside Kathmandu has been the city of Nepalgunj, close to the border with Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which experienced influx of thousands of returning Nepali migrant workers ahead of the closure of the border between the two countries.”
12) What is happening in India is a preview of Nepal’s future… and the rest of the world’s future if we don’t share vaccines, and tech transfer fast for ramp up.
13) meanwhile in America… land with too many misinfo and conspiracy theories and privilege…

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8 May
DEBUNK—Medical experts and the CDC said it’s not biologically possible for the COVID-19 vaccine to “shed” or affect unvaccinated people, despite what anti-vaccine activists claim. Thread 🧵 #COVID19
politifact.com/article/2021/m… Image
2) The misinfo about “vaccine shedding” has had real-world impact. One FL private school recently told immunized teachers to stay away from students, citing the baseless claim that unvaccinated people can get menstrual irregularities simply from interacting with vaccinated people
3) There is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines cause fertility or menstruation problems in people who get them, let alone in their close contacts, experts said.
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8 May
Stupid—Oregon church has huge 74+ person #COVID19 outbreak after dozens of maskless churchgoers stood onstage singing & clapping inside a packed indoor venue for Easter Sunday service. The Peoples Church, is vowing to do continue church service on Sunday. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05…
2) Now, the Oregon Health Authority says that at least 74 people associated with the church have tested positive for the coronavirus — one of the state’s largest workplace outbreaks.
3) “In a statement, the church’s leaders attributed the outbreak to a recent rise in covid-19 cases in Marion County, Ore.

Murray said the church, which has held in-person services throughout the pandemic, intends to continue with in-person ceremonies on Sunday.
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8 May
⚠️AIRBORNE >6 FEET / 2 METERS! The CDC finally acknowledged #SARSCoV2 has major transmission via airborne aerosols beyond 6 feet / 2 meters, not just close contact. The CDC/WHO & airborne deniers are a year late—and negligently endangered many. #COVID19 🧵
nytimes.com/2021/05/07/hea… ImageImage
2) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now states explicitly — in large, bold lettering — that airborne virus can be inhaled even when one is more than six feet away from an infected individual. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
3) The new language, posted online, is a change from the agency’s previous position that most infections were acquired through “close contact, not airborne transmission.”
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7 May
Ummmm, a Hollywood movie right here—

15,000 minks were all infected with #COVID19 (100% antibody positive)

…then silence…

But 2 months later… ➡️ 75% of the minks were suddenly all #SARSCoV2 reinfected again.

(Study brought to you by: Denmark’s CDC).
biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Image
2) “genome sequencing showed that the virus circulating during this re-infection was most closely related to virus identified in the first outbreak on this farm but additional sequence changes had occurred.”

➡️ it was related to original (not some foreign variant), but mutated.
3) “Animals had much higher levels of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies after re-infection than at free-testing.”

➡️ second infection boosted antibody levels.
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7 May
American (unhealthy) privilege.

#vaccinate #COVID19 Image
2) Meanwhile in India … exactly as the cartoon ^ depicts.

“Whoever has to die will die” 😢
3) American exceptionalism… only the US had a group of misinformed red-hat wearing people so large that it resists vaccinations by the millions.
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7 May
A WHO panel announced Friday that it would authorize emergency use of a coronavirus vaccine made by Chinese firm Sinopharm—allowing for entry into COVAX. It’s also first time that any Chinese-made vaccine received emergency authorization from WHO. #COVID19 washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/…
2) it is the 6th vaccine that WHO has validated. Moderna still awaiting entry too apparently.
3) “This expands the list of Covid-19 vaccines that Covax can buy, and gives countries confidence to expedite their own regulatory approval, and to import and administer a vaccine,” WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news briefing on Friday.
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