SOS—“Our oxygen supply is over. There is no oxygen in the tank. We are only able to supply oxygen to patients in ICU. [The Delhi authorities] are not able to supply us oxygen”: Dr Bankata, Batra Hospital, Delhi, India 🇮🇳 sending SOS to the world. #COVID19
2) Keep in mind Delhi has some of the best hospitals in all of India. Most of the hospitals sending Sos and getting in TV are wealthy private hospitals. Public hospitals for the poor... you can imagine. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1385116938255454211
3) Again, Batra Hospital is one of the premiere private hospitals in Delhi for the rich. Here is the reality for the non-rich... it’s been long over for the public hospitals for the lay public.... https://twitter.com/priyamvadagopal/status/1385871916209221635
4) Now get ready for some completely fraudulent BS from Indian health ministry... they touted a scientifically unproven “cure” for COVID—if the photo doesn’t look like an endorsement, I don’t know what is.

Then guess what, the company bragged it was WHO endorsed too... https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1385546729416806403
5) Meanwhile somehow the claim that cure went unchecked within india 🇮🇳 for a while until the WHO had to **issue a statement via Twitter** that any such “acceptance” or cerificafion from @WHO was false! https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1385546738174472194
6) The Indian Medical Association was completely pissed off at the Indian health minister and staff for touting the unproven purported product with no evidence.

Sound familiar? (Cough, hydroxychloroquine, cough) https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1385546746667880449
7) then the ruling party of India (of Modi) declares COVID fight is over and they were victorious. https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1385546749184516101
8) When shit started hitting the fan... India started then blaming people for being careless.

Anyone hear that before? (Cough, BC health chief Henry, cough) #bcpoli https://twitter.com/ani/status/1370510034015195140
9) But then let’s go back to boasting about the crowds of people after blaming people. https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1385546794147500037
10) Fast forward one month... deaths soaring. But mostly unreported, except for diligent journalists like @muradbanaji who helps tabulate the huge divergence of locally observed funeral cremation pyres versus official death counts. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1384789570957500416
11) So when you see India “official” death statistics... know you’re seeing likely just the underreported counts. This curve doesn’t include most of the unreported local cremations. That is India 🇮🇳 crisis in just 2 months recapped. https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1385547171903287300
12) when the reporter @Saurabh_Unmute asks what will happen now... and the doctor says “make alternative arrangements”....

If you are a COVID-denier and still cannot have empathy for those suffering COVID... please go away. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1385897978544771076
13) Supposedly with all oxygen depleted... Indian 🇮🇳 govt finally decides to do some mild red tape cutting by pausing import taxes on oxygen and oxygen accessories.

Ummmm... how about you should have done that like 2 months ago when cases were already rising?!?! https://twitter.com/sambitswaraj/status/1385899924483547150
14) This is India 🇮🇳’s future... if we let it.

But I believe there is no fate but what we make. #COVID19 https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1385797607646285829
15) no ICU beds or oxygen for a city of 20 million. Let that sink in. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1386003707356192770
16) World needs vaccines. So why can’t Biden WH send US vaccines immediately abroad? Because the current vaccines are from Trump WH contracts that specifically prohibit export.

Only the new Biden WH ordered vaccines can be shipped abroad—coming in May. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1379621738850422787?s=21
17) As people are dying... there is a new crisis of undercounting all the dead. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1386124397300391940
18) India is now short on oxygen, vaccines, testing, PPEs, wood for cremation, and space for graves. Did I miss anything? https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1386322609160212483?
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