Helping India

Kevin Drum:

India is skyrocketing, but still has quite a ways to go to match the January peak in the United States. However, keep a few things in mind: The cases in India are likely undercounted.

In terms of raw numbers, India is already well above our daily peak (300,000 vs. 250,000 in January for the US).

The US hospital system is far more advanced than India's.

It's natural that every country is looking toward its own needs first. Like it or not, that's human nature. 

However, the US has more vaccine doses than it needs at this point, including millions of AstraZeneca doses just sitting in a warehouse, and we could certainly afford to ship most of those to India. We should do that....

The US is beginning to help: U.S. racing to send aid to India as COVID-19 cases soar