Development economist and IIT Delhi professor Reetika Khera says technocrats and businesspersons have disproportionate influence in designing our vaccination policy, when public health experts need more say. Suggests compulsory licensing to open up supply. https://t.co/sqwfOh07GF
Burdening the state government financially for universal vaccination is unconscionable. Like for Polio etc, vaccination must be free and production must be scaled up by licensing several manufacturers if 50 cr are to be vaccinated within next 6 months to prevent the 3rd wave.
The test positivity rate for Kolkata is close to 50%. One in every two people being tested is positive.
Perhaps a couple more elections will make things better?
All meetings between PM and CMs on the Covid disaster should always be public. You are deciding our fates, you decide who gets oxygen, essential drugs, who doesn’t. Who lives, who dies.
We have a right to know what our elected representatives are doing in a nat’l health crisis.
@StephenKing “Incompetent” I absolutely agree with. I also think he is an opportunistic, seditious child treading water b/c he knows that the moment he leaves office, the Southern District of New York will file criminal charges guaranteeing that he dies in prison.
Water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are running more than three degrees above average.
What the U.S. does NOT need in 2020 is a terrible hurricane season. https://t.co/CJlerb2Q2c
@briankoppelman Aenema by Tool, the hardest and heaviest album to come along in a decade somewhat lacking in “unwhiney” rock. Hearing Maynard’s unchecked rage, an anger that I was neither free nor eloquent enough to match, gave me a cathartic release I needed most during a dark time in my life.
Margaret Atwood kicked off a streaming series for Canadian writers whose tours have been derailed. “It doesn’t replace the fun of an audience mass audience response, but it’s better than nothing,” she said. “I think we’re in the better-than-nothing era.” https://t.co/lD5VBZ2cEc