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9 May, 9 tweets, 4 min read
📍Let this sink in—India is likely seeing 25,000-50,000 excess deaths/day.

“You can ignore, fail to test, or undercount whatever disease you want—but you can't ignore the dead”

And in India 🇮🇳, the official @narendramodi govt statistics are dead wrong. @drharshvardhan #COVID19
2) This is now the dystopian world of India under its current leadership
3) the excess deaths are likely much much higher than 2x for India 🇮🇳. See new study from @IHME_UW report…
4) You see excess deaths even by asking rural villagers to calculate rates.
5) This is horrible timing and political optics to build something like this in middle of pandemic.
6) meanwhile… let’s keep constructing that presidential mansion.
7) The delay in aid that has arrived in India r distribution is equally problematic.
8) don’t be privileged— vaccinate.
9) Trigger warning… so many deaths tHat there are now India 🇮🇳 reports from @NDTV that dozens of dead bodies are now floating down the Ganges River… and several other sightings too.

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Doctors in India are concerned about an increase in a highly fatal fungal infection affecting cases & recently recovered from #COVID19. Mucormycosis, is a mold that attacks the respiratory tract, potentially eroding facial structures & harming the brain.🧵
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☮️PEACE NOT WAR: “We urge you not to cave to [Trump’s] failed approach to Iran,” 50 officials wrote to @POTUS. “We have seen the net effect of that: A larger Iranian nuclear program and a greater risk of war with Iran.”

HT @tparsi @YasmineTaeb @QuincyInst
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2) During the 2020 presidential race, Biden harshly condemned former President Donald Trump’s Iran policy, specifically his “reckless” decision to abandon the deal, the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor Barack Obama.
3) After pulling the United States out of the deal, the Trump administration reimposed brutal economic sanctions that had a devastating impact on ordinary Iranians, including depriving them of medicine and other basic humanitarian aid,
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FAKE REMEDIES being peddled across India to “protect” against #COVID19. It’s total nonsense.

As both an epidemiologist and a firmer nutrition researcher who looked at the study, there is no evidence to support benefit of Chyawanprash. It’s pandemic profiteering. My thread 🧵 Image
2) it’s horseshit nonsense.

Chyavanprash is a cooked mixture of sugar, honey, ghee, Indian gooseberry jam, sesame oil, berries and various herbs and spices. It is prepared as per the instructions suggested in Ayurvedic text.

But study showed no effect.
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3) bad journalism / misleading author quotes:

This is false ❌— “Chyawanprash Can Protect From Severe Infection Of Covid-19: Ayurvedic Study”

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Mother/daughter sacrifices for love— Melissa’s mom Ana left to goto US 7 years ago to support her family—in a factory for Kardashians. Melissa traveled 2,500 miles, with 1 month in detention/foster care, to reunite with her mom. Melissa is just 10 yrs old.
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2) “Will I recognize you?” she asked.
Her arrival on April 2 marked the end of a 2,500-mile journey that began in Guatemala in February, progressed over land through Mexico and then ended in a hazardous raft trip across the Rio Grande into Texas…
3) Melissa did it alone. She spent several weeks in a government-contracted group home before being allowed to join her mother and two older siblings in California.
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Unusual rise in rare fungal infection in #COVID19 patients, especially with diabetes—can lead to blindness.

"Diabetes lowers the body's immune defences, coronavirus exacerbates it, and then steroids which help fight Covid-19 act like fuel to the fire” 🧵
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3) “This aggressive infection affects the nose, eye and sometimes the brain.
After his colleague finished, Dr Nair would carry out a three hour procedure to remove the patient's eye.
"I will be removing her eye to save her life. That's how this disease works," Dr Nair told me.
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