raw materials from the USA on the way. Screw China and their 10% effective vaccine that just bred resistant virus - as planned no doubt.
In India, 350,000 new cases today - world record
“April 25 (UPI) — The Biden administration on Sunday announced it is allowing exports of raw materials needed by India to make a COVID-19 vaccine as it faces an exponential surge in deaths and new cases.
The United States has located supplies of materials necessary for India to ramp up its production of its homegrown Covishield vaccine and will immediately make them available ...”
I saw a report on TV as I was running around trying to get a plumbing repair project completed by the time my wife and I would be making supper. (Hey, pretty dang urgent!) So I may have missed some details, but I believe the upshot was that the US would begin major vaccine shipments to India in a couple months. My guess is that present commitments (basically to ourselves) must be completed first.
I support this, but, if India is unable to get the increases in their numbers* somewhat reduced in the next couple weeks, much of that help will be too late. The acceleration in the curves is astounding.
*There is a hint of slowing in their daily case numbers’ ramp up for the last couple days (yesterday even dropped a bit), but, that may just be a typical “weekend” data glitch. I’m hoping not.