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Message: In India, people are begging for hospital beds and oxygen cylinders on social media.

Immediately thought of the "hospital discharge within 48 hours" comment...or something similar to that after reading the following from the CBC. Just brutal, reading this as we wait!

Like Fuzzy posted...are they negotiating hard, or...what's up with this stall?

Where is the sense of humanity here?

The frantic calls for life-saving oxygen or the antiviral drug remdesivir come fast and furious on social media, as India grapples with a deepening COVID-19 crisis and dwindling medical supplies.

"My aunt has serious breathing issue ... Pls help us to arrange oxygen cylinder," one tweet reads.

"Serious #covid19 patient in #Delhi with oxygen level 62 needs hospital bed," another user wrote.

"Urgently need Remdasivir [sic] injection," reads another.

Social media crowdsourcing is the only place to turn for so many Indians struggling to save their friends and loved ones from the ferocious second wave of the pandemic, even as a black market with exorbitant drug prices starts to flourish.

Others have no choice but to make the rounds to hospitals in New Delhi, the country's capital, pleading for a bed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-covid19-pandemic-social-media-1.6005433

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