WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON IN INDIA

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

As mainstream media proclaims a second huge surge of #Covid19 in India over a year into the pandemic, many are questioning these stories. Charity United president, William Tucker, spent the last year in the slums of Delhi and has the inside story you aren’t hearing about the devastating effects the initial lockdowns had on tens of millions in India and insight into what is really happening there right now.

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0:00.0	Everyone's asking what's going on in India.
0:03.0	We're going to look at India, what's been going on in the news there.
0:07.0	Just to frame this segment a little bit.
0:09.0	India remains the world's COVID hotspot.
0:12.0	Terrible news again for India, which has been setting global record highs
0:16.0	and the number of coronavirus infections.
0:18.0	India continues to battle a crippling second coronavirus wave.
0:21.0	Extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating
0:26.0	there crowded hospitals are turning away patients.
0:29.0	Even if they manage a spot, oxygen supplies are often spent.
0:33.0	The ICU is so crowded, the doctors and nurses barely have room to move between beds.
0:38.0	The only way to get into this unit is if a patient dies.
0:43.0	There are medicine and testing shortages, a thriving black market for supplies and overwhelmed crematorium.
0:49.0	This crematorium believed it would probably process about 150 bodies today.
0:54.0	Crematoriums simply can't keep up in bodies.
0:57.0	I've begun washing up on the shores of India's biggest waters, the Ganges River.
1:02.0	Today, daily deaths top 4,000 again.
1:05.0	A lack of vaccine is fueling anger against the government and its leader.
1:09.0	When you are in a very difficult situation, the way you are in India,
1:14.0	you have to try and figure out ways to get as many vaccines into people as quickly as you can.
1:21.0	I have someone that has been on the ground in India for the past year joining me now.
1:27.0	His name is William Tucker.
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