[COVID NEWS] Absolutely horrifying situation in India right now

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[COVID NEWS] Absolutely horrifying situation in India right now

By artappraiser on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 11:34pm |

Absolutely horrifying situation in India right now https://t.co/h1LunLgLx9
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 30, 2021

[previous Covid New thread HERE, covering April 16-28]

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https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1387974490307665923?s=20

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Homer's Illiad, 800 BC, Apollo's plague upon the Greeks: "frequent funeral piles of the dead were continually burning"

India 2020 AD: https://t.co/jhWEJZWrQ6

It's awful to contemplate how India will suffer.

Plague is not new to our species. It's just new to us. #ApollosArrow pic.twitter.com/S7AmV2JEFT
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) April 30, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 7:49am

Every 7th doctor in US is Indian.

And he fights against corona in US. While India is in complete tatters.

This massive brain and talent drain because we failed our own people and they sought life elsewhere. And it is costing us very badly today.https://t.co/6gjHAzlkM7
— Bharadwaj (@BharadwajSpeaks) April 30, 2021

JUST IN: Govt grants emergency financial powers to the military to strengthen the Covid fight. Powers allow Formation Commanders to establish & operate hospitals, quarantine facilities and to undertake procurement of Covid specific equipment without the usual clearances.
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) April 30, 2021

It is incomprehensible that the so-called Indian Super Model on COVID-19 dynamics commissioned by the Modi govt had only computer science professors, and no epidemiologists and public health experts! The nation is paying the price.
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) April 30, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 8:20am

Do not go gentle
into that good night.
Rage, rage against
the dying of the light. pic.twitter.com/QOd51WECEb
— Mark Pahlow (@mcpheeceo) May 1, 2021

WIDER IMAGE Documenting the death of a COVID patient outside a Delhi hospital https://t.co/0CUazRjUT9 pic.twitter.com/9tg8A5XOy2
— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) April 26, 2021

Fashion company Richemont confirms death of designer Alber Elbaz from COVID-19 https://t.co/2XplGuWAjv pic.twitter.com/J7ieLzNeRC
— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) April 25, 2021

If you step out of your own little bubble for a half-second, you’ll discover that around the world this is the WORST period ever for the COVID pandemic, and the second-most devastating in terms of deaths. We apparently don’t care much once it’s not happening to us, directly. pic.twitter.com/tMkbuC21wv
— Horizons One (@JJSingh) May 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/02/2021 - 7:53pm

Interesting reception for Big Pharma in Israel.

More globally, it's telling of a nation's character and political status quo the various directions COVID and its solutions (or lack thereof) have sent the national discourse.https://t.co/kYwug83ovY
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) April 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/02/2021 - 8:07pm

JUST IN: India reports 362,738 new cases and 3,448 new deaths
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) May 4, 2021

and that's just the reported, there are, of course, tons more.

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/04/2021 - 3:27pm

BREAKING: CVS announces it is now accepting *walk-in* appointments for #coronavirus vaccines across the country. No appointment necessary. This comes after President Biden's order yesterday for all pharmacies taking part in the federal vaccine program to allow walk-ins.#WBZ
— Liam Martin (@LiamWBZ) May 5, 2021

Full press release from CVS: pic.twitter.com/nH4zm6ZjHc
— Liam Martin (@LiamWBZ) May 5, 2021

Walmart is also allowing walk-ins in many locations. https://t.co/K2J18B4gze
— Liam Martin (@LiamWBZ) May 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/05/2021 - 7:01pm

...In Michael Lewis' account the villain is not Trump but the CDC itself...

For this Sunday's @nytimesbooks, I reviewed Michael Lewis' new book on the bungled U.S. Covid response -- which is really a history of how we got here, and why Trump, in the words of one character, was merely "a comorbidity.” https://t.co/ffrly2MT4N
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) May 6, 2021

This is a looping, flashback-heavy account, making the most of Lewis' conceit: That key people, tucked away deep in the dysfunctional U.S. public health bureaucracy, saw the Covid pandemic -- or something like it -- coming. https://t.co/ffrly2MT4N
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) May 6, 2021

In Lewis's account the villain is not Trump but the CDC itself: A butt-covering, badly politicized, wholly ineffective institution that one character compares to a person who has let flattering, but untrue, stories circulate about their glorious high school football career.
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) May 6, 2021

The reflexive tendency to valorize civil servants abused by Trump gave the CDC tons of cover in the early days, Lewis writes, allowing officials there to duck blame. pic.twitter.com/43LN1GLyYZ
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) May 6, 2021

Lewis focuses a lot on California, where the Newsom admin was — at least early in — thought to be a model of a quick-response state.
Not at all, reports Lewis, whose book casts the state’s former top public health official, Sonia Angell, as incompetent. https://t.co/U7DUiwHK9x pic.twitter.com/0mC2Z7bzwt
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) May 6, 2021

when Michael Lewis writes, smart people pay attention (doesn't necessarily mean anything will get done about it, tho)

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 3:50pm

Bodies of Hundreds of New York COVID Victims Still in Trucks on Brooklyn Pier https://t.co/Kv3mY5vJod pic.twitter.com/6ZXJDCzz8y
— THE CITY (@THECITYNY) May 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 8:22pm

We have, over the last year, witnessed a modern version of denying Galileo. “Believe science” ought never be conflated with “believe experts”, who got SARS-CoV-2 transmission completely wrong. From @zeynep:https://t.co/ttWRAbOp0o
— Ben Thompson (@benthompson) May 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/09/2021 - 6:27pm

bringing us up to date on conspiracy theories about Fauci, but more importantly: STEVE BANNON'S HAIR!

The anger at Fauci on the far-right is unmatched over the last few weeks.

The InfoWarsy idea that he used COVID to unleash some sort of elaborate global control plot is now pretty common among the Trump-adjacent Q and alt-right set, even more mainstream sections of it. https://t.co/QhKTLPRrIf
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 1:57am

Yglesias and Enten on getting the vaccination rate up (and Enten says our main problem is non-political people, not right wingers):

I am sticking with “increase the reimbursement rates, allow commercial ad campaigns, and let the private sector figure this out.”

This is like the very model of a problem (how do you gin up sales for something) that capitalism was built to solve. https://t.co/6zgGcPSbfS
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 2:02am

be so grateful you got vaccinated even if you thought you didn't really need it, there's plenty more surprises left for those who catch COVID:

Doctors in India have noticed a growing number of cases of mucormycosis disease in recovering COVID-19 patients

"Mucormycosis is a very rare infection. It is caused by exposure to mucor mould which is commonly found in soil, plants, manure, and decaying fruits and vegetables. It affects the sinuses, the brain and the lungs and can be life-threatening in diabetic or severely immunocompromised individuals, such as cancer patients or people with HIV/AIDS." — BBC News

From whole twitter section on it

It's deadly and hard to treat, like only 50% survival rate.

Medicine still doesn't know enough about what Covid does to people....you might think they have better treatments now, and you might be wrong.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 1:51pm

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