Thread by @ProfSomashekhar

The three prime blunders of managing #COVID19India in 2021 (many others too)
We would recognize two now because they contribute to our surge now. The third one is not yet known to the health system and the powers that run it.
1/n

The first one - the premature declaration of victory over #COVID19 in initial months despite UK & other countries still under a strict lockdown. This percolated down and many stopped taking precautions and worse - made fun of those who were careful. ✌️ was declared at the 🔝 2/n

Second one - mismanagement of #COVID19Vaccination - no orders in Jan, complicated approval, online registration & deliberate slow vaccination (words of task force member) - result is poor rates, unnecessary vaccine hesitancy, why vaccinate when we achieved ✌️ over COVID19 3/n

Third one - no one is taking about it - #LongCovid or post Covid issues. Much of the west is actively researching it, UK has Long Covid clinics in place, but here in 🇮🇳 no one is even discussing it - what we are focused on is Recovery ❤️‍🩹 Rate! It is unfair. 4/n

Third - patients have not recovered. Many have strokes, poor ejection fraction, lung fibrosis, pulmonary embolism, the works. No sane person can include them in recovered numbers. Of course #Mucormycosis too. But no. We will give recovery rates! 5/n

https://twitter.com/pseudo_sapiens/status/1390550825525604355

So many people are responsible for it. Blaming a few favorites isn’t going to help.
Rallies, Genome sequencing, Fudging data, the list is endless and it is not new. It is the culture of decades which isn’t going to disappear.
6/n and Finito