India double mutation and red list

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This is worrying. They have all the variants present and a new double mutation of covid.

When will they be red listed? Sure as hell don't want the double mutation coming into the country. What's taking the government so long to ted list them?!?!

It's actually quite worrying what's going in in India. I've seen a fair few pics of young people dying without any medical help being provided due to overflowing hospitals. Seems as thought the oxygen supplies are low and the health system may collapse at some point. It does seem as thought the double mutation us more deadly than what we are being told in my opinion.

It is difficult to compare death rates just by looking at what is going on now. Once you”ve had the cases get this out of hand and your hospitals are this stretched, a lot of the people dying from covid may well have survived if there were much fewer cases and they could get the necessary treatment.

It’s why more transmissible, but not necessarily more deadly or more likely to need treatment is an issue. It leads to more people needing more treatment at the same time if you don’t get on top of the number of cases and you have nowhere else to transfer patients.

The worst part with India is their positivity rate on tests is huge which suggests they are missing loads of cases and even then, the number of new cases is still rising hugely virtually everywhere. They are weeks away from the demand on health services and deaths reaching peak.

All local hospitals reaching capacity has definitely been an issue over the past year in parts of Spain, Italy, US, Sweden. London has definitely had issues and had to transfer patients across the country even though they’d they’d trebbled theit icu capacity.