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Jul 18, 2021 21 tweets 5 min read
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar. “One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar.” I did not write 10-15 million will die of COVID.
tinyurl.com/4trexsxh. /1 I expect the fallout from the politics of Covid to last 5-8 or even 10 years & be intertwined with legacy of the coup. We will never know how many contracted or died of Covid. Anecdotally, the elderly and people with co-morbidities appear to have been hit hard, as expected. /2