“There are next to no ICU beds [left] in a city of 20 million" — Delhi hospitals are overwhelmed and collapsing without any oxygen left. 🧵
BBC journalist @yogital reports. #COVID19#CovidIndia
https://t.co/SRKGcH9gOj
World food prices are soaring, hitting their highest level since June 2014.
A look at how the global prices of five key food products have changed over the past 12 months.
#GraphicTruth
https://t.co/XEW3ZLyBAI
As a whole, the average percentage of income on which US corporations pay taxes is not much lower than the legal national rate.
#GraphicTruth
https://t.co/c4aKAma4T0
Markets think we're done with Covid, but the situation has never been worse outside the US.
Daily case numbers for India, Poland and Turkey. Daily death numbers for Brazil. My god.
Brazil's latest #COVID19 wave is becoming tragic beyond measure. 🇧🇷 has “plunged into crisis”. Patients are dying waiting for ICU beds. #P1 variant is 2-2.5x faster transmission. More younger 20-30s patients now dying, unlike before.🧵
Thx @MattRiversCNN
Yesterday's 2.2 million vaccinations (best day yet) in the US got us to 50% of Americans ≥65 years old having had at least 1 vaccine dose.
For such a big country, both in population & geography, that's a pretty impressive achievement in <10 weeks
(+ yes, we need to go faster)
We're really at an inflection point here.
Pfizer increasing deliveries to 14m/week by mid-March.
Moderna aiming to ramp up to 40m/month by April.
J&J (one dose) delivering 20m doses in March.
As we cross the grim threshold of 500,000 Americans dead from Covid, we reflect on a tragic year, but with a renewed optimism that in 2021, we'll start to reclaim our normal lives. We won't forget those on the front lines of protecting the nation and securing that better future.