Thread by @SabiVM, I did a few interviews on what is happening in India [...]

Sabina Vohra-Miller

SabiVM

I did a few interviews on what is happening in India

right now.

I cried during each & every one of them.

This is one of them. Vaccine distribution has been inequitable not just here in Canada, but also globally. Vaccine nationalism is killing.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/22/the-double-mutant-variant-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-covid-19-strain-found-in-bc-alberta-and-quebec.html

The ‘double mutant’ variant: what we know and don’t know about the COVID-19 strain found in B.C.,...

The variant adding to India’s surge in cases has recently been discovered in Canada.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/22/the-double-mutant-variant-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-covid-19-strain-found-in-bc-alberta-and-quebec.html

India has shared majority of vaccines manufactured. One of the largest suppliers into COVAX, 65M doses already + 2B by end of year.

Meanwhile, only 10% of the Indian population vaccinated. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1221359.shtml

India shifts from mass vaccine exporter to importer, worrying the world

After gifting and selling tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to nations abroad, India suddenly finds itself short of shots as new infections surge in the world's second-most populous country.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1221359.shtml

While US blocked raw supplies for India to manufacture these vaccines.

Like they blocked access to our vaccines.

And are sitting on 40M unused AstraZeneca vaccines that they think are not good enough for them. https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1385194010227138561

https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1385194010227138561

While India gasps for air.

And burns with funeral pyres.

But these lives don’t matter. Because they’re brown and there is a line in the sand where we divided it all up.

And I can’t stop crying. Because my heart can’t take it anymore. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56851265.amp#click=https://t.co/jiTzWC1vgH

Delhi hospitals run out of oxygen amid Covid spike - BBC News

Hospitals are overwhelmed, with more than 99% of intensive care beds occupied.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56851265.amp#click=https://t.co/jiTzWC1vgH

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