India’s “Darwinian” COVID response: “Indians have been left to fend for themselves”
May 12, 2021
India’s “Darwinian” COVID Response: “Indians have been left to fend for themselves” | GZERO World
"It feels like citizens have been left to fend for themselves. It's almost sort of Darwinian. You have a sense of starring in your own worst science fiction survivor movie, where it's up to you if you survive," says Barkha Dutt, an Indian journalist who just lost her father to COVID and has tested positive for the virus herself. A year into the pandemic, India's government has not properly prepared its hospitals and health care workers, forcing desperate families to run from hospital to hospital looking for help, she tells Ian Bremmer in an interview on GZERO World.
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