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The Big Story: Dose over
At the height of the Covid-19 crisis in New York in 2020, residents of the city spoke of hearing ambulances go by every few minutes, a sign of just how bad things were. In India, most people on Twitter can attest to something similar over the last week, as the country’s second wave – which we wrote about three weeks ago – appeared to explode.
The social network has been filled with desperate pleas for help, whether in the form of a vacant bed at a Covid-19 hospital or for supplies of oxygen and remdesivir, an anti-viral drug in great demand. Twitter is obviously not representative of the Indian population, but its skew – richer and more privileged – and the sheer volume of demands for help only reflect how bad things are on the ground.
Every morning I wake up in sadness to look at the covid dashboard and projections for India. More than 1000...
