(My notes on the points he made.)
Dr. Harjit Singh Bhatti, President Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum:
Concept of herd immunity was wrong ? seeing patients who were infected last year, got fully vaccinated and now are infected again.
Vaccine was promoted as a treatment, rather than a preventative.
Oxygen is in short supply.
Quarantine centers were not set up to break transmission chains.
India's hospitals on verge of Covid collapse amid national oxygen shortage
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?Apr 24, 2021
Channel 4 News
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Hospitals across India have warned that patients are dying because there isn't enough oxygen - as the number of Covid infections and deaths rose by record levels yet again. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe?) Almost a million cases have now been recorded in just three days - putting already overstretched hospitals under even more strain. The military is now being deployed in an effort to get oxygen to the worst hit areas - as some say they're within hours of running out altogether.
Dr. Harjit Singh Bhatti, President Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum:
Concept of herd immunity was wrong ? seeing patients who were infected last year, got fully vaccinated and now are infected again.
Vaccine was promoted as a treatment, rather than a preventative.
Oxygen is in short supply.
Quarantine centers were not set up to break transmission chains.
India's hospitals on verge of Covid collapse amid national oxygen shortage
129,176 views
?Apr 24, 2021
Channel 4 News
1.62M subscribers
Hospitals across India have warned that patients are dying because there isn't enough oxygen - as the number of Covid infections and deaths rose by record levels yet again. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe?) Almost a million cases have now been recorded in just three days - putting already overstretched hospitals under even more strain. The military is now being deployed in an effort to get oxygen to the worst hit areas - as some say they're within hours of running out altogether.
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