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I'm repeatedly being asked 'What can we do in Canada to help India'?
A quick thread on Canada's responsibility in (and for) this crisis. https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/status/1385957116008181760
A quick thread on Canada's responsibility in (and for) this crisis. https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/status/1385957116008181760
1) India asked the world for a waiver on intellectual property for COVID vaccines in mid-2020. Canada has thus far refused to support that, and continues to prevaricate on the subject. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/trips-covid-19-waiver
2) Canada is one of the few rich countries in the world to be purchasing vaccine directly from India. Millions of AstraZeneca doses that could have stayed in India are being used to vaccinate healthy Canadians. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-modi-vaccine-1.5908770
3) Canada continues to publicly support Modi, whose downplaying of rising case counts in February/March has brought India to the brink. https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1359604268609773569?s=20
Here's a nice piece on some of the origins of the current Indian crisis https://asiatimes.com/2021/04/the-covid-19-catastrophe-in-india-keeps-growing/
And a resource for individuals looking to help https://twitter.com/sonakshaiyengar/status/1385935331426328576?s=20
India's collapsing system was foreseeable last March. It managed to squeak through the past year, but this surge was inevitable. There will be hundreds of thousands of excess deaths.
