Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "India sees highest rise in coronavirus deaths in a day" video.

  1. Then do what you can, to isolate your family.
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  2. India is manufacturing its own vaccines, but is having supply chain problems.
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  3. India, as a country with a lot of pharmaceutical manufacturing, decided to produce their own vaccine. They chose two platforms, one using the methods developed by Astrazeneca, a chimp adenovirus vectored vaccine, and the other an attenuated virus vaccine. They ramped up everything, except for several imported supplies, like the biobags for growing cell cultures. Their European and American suppliers are sending all their output to European and American vaccine manufacturers, and cannot send India the supplies they need. Modi contacted Biden, and asked for supplies, and Biden told him that the DPA required those supplies to stay here. They got a similar response from the EU. India was shortsighted, in not developing all the infrastructure they needed to manufacture vaccines, and think that they could get vital ingredients from countries that also need them. This is the downside to an international supply chain, as the US found, early in the pandemic, when we couldn't get PPE from China. And, unlike the P1 variant from Brazil, the Indian variant doesn't seem to be more infectious or evade vaccine immunity. The problem is just a lack of vaccination.
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  4. That's rather insulting to the majority of the country, who are Hindu, and to the Muslim, Sikh, Parsi, and Jainist minorities.
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  5. I don't notice any problem, but then I don't have hearing loss, yet.
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  6. Except invitro tests show it isn't.
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  7. Sorry, but they always were at higher levels of death than reported, and long ago surpassed the US in deaths.
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  8. Have you never heard the story of the Little Red Hen? You grow it, you mill it, you bake it, you eat it. India thought it could manufacture its own vaccines, and did not contract with European or American vaccine firms for any supply. But, they forgot that they import much of the materials needed, to manufacture vaccines, and the US and European vaccine producers get first shot at the supply produced in their own country. Don't blame the US, for India's lack of foresight.
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  9. With suppression of accurate data, the only way the outside world can see the devastation, in countries like Mexico, India and Iran, is watch the proliferations of graves. Be careful this Ramadan, and stay well.
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  10. If that really were all the deaths in a day, you'd be correct. But, healthcare workers, inside the country, say only a small fraction of Covid deaths are actually reported.
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