Well, India has a very shaky health care system even in good times, and it didn’t take much to completely overwhelm the hospitals that they do have.
They can’t even get oxygen to people, which would save many lives.
Looks like they got hit with a variant that is more transmissible, leading to a spike that simply overwhelmed their system.
When this all started I thought, if India gets this thing, katy bar the door, it’s probably fortunate for the rest of the world, that at least they got it on the back-end, instead of the front-end.
Is it possible it could be the African variant that has shown to be 8 times more likey to breakthru a vaccinated person vs a person who contracted COVID naturally and recovered? Which would lend credence to the spike after mass inoculation as shown in the chart on this thread. India is not too far from Africa.