How India’s Covid-Hit Hospitals Ran Out of Oxygen – The New York Times

At 9:45 p.m., alarms blared across the intensive care unit of Jaipur Golden Hospital. Over two dozen patients on ventilators couldn’t breathe. Some flailed their arms and legs. Others cried for help, choking sounds coming from their throats as if they were being strangled.

Mechanics sprinted to the maintenance room to see what was wrong. Nurses grabbed small plastic pumps to fill the lungs of critically ill patients by hand.

It wasn’t enough. Jaipur Golden, a respected hospital in Delhi, had run out of medical oxygen. Over the next seven hours, 21 coronavirus patients died.

“Nobody can forget that night,” said Shaista Nigar, the hospital’s nursing superintendent. “It was a total breakdown.”

Across India, amid a devastating second wave of Covid-19, hospitals ran out of beds and critical supplies, contributing to the deaths of untold thousands of people and worsening an already tragic outbreak. By one count, oxygen shortages alone have killed at least 600 people over the past two months.

Image and Imagery

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An alley of rows of young men and women, clad in cool attires and sitting in ergonomic chairs, are glued to their laptops.  Their trendy glassed office overlook a vast expanse of swanky business towers that dot the skyline. Sipping endless cups of coffee and working extended hours, they always are in a hurry to beat the excruciating client deadlines to complete the project in hand and move over to the next. These smart, tech savvy and highly paid bunch of youngsters are the Indian IT professionals tasked to develop top notch software products for companies worldwide..and millions of such techies work in cities across the country fulfilling an ever increasing global demand for ITservices.  They were the poster boys and ambassadors of the new nation,  a confident and aspirant India taking rapid strides in frontier technologies … and the world lapped up this image, until the events…

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हर कदम जीत की ओर

Harshita Singh

बाधाओं के शिखर होंगे ,
मुश्किलों का कहर होगा ,
परेशानियों का ढेर होगा ,
फिर भी हर कदम मेरा जीत की ओर होगा ।
राह में गहरे गड्ढे भी होंगे ,
लहरों में मुझे डुबाने का शोर भी होगा ,
हवाओं में मुझे गिराने का जोर भी होगा ,
फिर भी हर कदम मेरा जीत की ओर होगा ।
असफलताओं के ढेर भी होंगे ,
संकल्प हिलाने को मेरा प्रयास भी बेजोर होगा
गिरने पर मेरे , हँसने का इंतजार भी जरूर होगा ,
फिर भी हर कदम मेरा जीत की ओर होगा ।
असफलताओं , बाधाओं से ना मेरे सपने खंडित होंगे ,
हर बार गिरने पर मेरा उठने का प्रयास जरूर होगा ,
हैं यकीन मेरी सफलता का भी एक दिन शोर होगा ,
क्योंकि हर कदम मेरा जीत की ओर होगा ।
-हर्षिता

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El pasado ofrece un menú a sus visitantes

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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El pasado ofrece a sus visitantes un menú con escombros, ecos a veces imperceptibles, ausencias y sobrantes, silencios, voces refugiadas en algún rincón o escondrijo, suspiros e ilusiones rotas. Suele transformarse, primero, en recuerdo, en nostalgia, y, más tarde, al paso de los minutos y los días, en olvido, en polvo que dispersa el viento, en historias que naufragan y se hunden en la desmemoria.

La vida y el tiempo, indiferentes a las rutas que eligen los hombres y las mujeres, no se conmueven ante lo que queda atrás ni coleccionan recuerdos, y menos fotografías, cartas perfumadas y flores marchitas. No disponen de cuentas bancarias. Simplemente, continúan su itinerario. Son etéreos. Lo intangible es energía y, aunque de cierto modo afecta al pano material, no es posible manejarlo como lo hace el relojero con el péndulo, las manecillas y…

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My First Published Book!

Hoping it gets the attention and sales it deserves – good job!

Saania's diary - reflections, learnings, sparkles

Happy Monday Everyone!

I am so delighted to inform you that I am releasing my very own book today on my birthday! It is titled Teenage Chronicles, and is published by EuropeBooks.

A little about my book…

Teenage Chronicles is an honest reflection of my personal teenage journey. It captures the emotions, anxieties, and the euphoria of an average teenager. I am hoping that, vicariously, it may help other teenagers better cope through these intriguing years – as fascinating as they are difficult!

I am a typical teenager who has experienced and endured ubiquitous teenage emotions. When these emotions started getting rather overwhelming, I tried to introspect deeply. I would spend many nights thinking about what was really happening inside me. I also talked to a lot of friends to try and get collective wisdom. Was I alone in feeling this way? If not, how were others coping? Themes that…

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Afterglow

yaskhan

When ink and blood bleed together,
The pain becomes luminous
Writing itself into the mind
Salvation's enlightenment.
Wielding the pen of poetry
Surrendering to courage...
Not letting words die
Giving poetry strength to survive;
On unmarked routes, unknown maps
A carousel of unborn dreams
Drawing on time, finding destinations
Riding a nomadic compass
Trailing, probing, exploring
Guilelessly woven thoughts
Like a Stollen that enters breath
Breaking into words like
Fallen , flushed, blooms
Still fragrant...
Freeing mind from eclipse of
Que sera sera..

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Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Effectiveness Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Findings From a Large Observational Study in Israel by Yaki Saciuk, Jennifer Kertes, Micha Mandel, Beatriz Hemo, Naama Shamir Stein, Anat Ekka Zohar :: SSRN

Findings: mRNA BNT162b2 was found effective for the total population group for infection, hospitalization and mortality, with adjusted VE of 93·0% (CI:92·6-93·4%), 93·4% (CI:91·9-94·7%) and 91·1% (CI:86·5-94·1%) respectively. VE for infection was lower for participants aged 75 and over, and for those with hypertension, diabetes and obesity. Interpretation:This study strengthens the evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination is effective in preventing infection, hospitalization and mortality. Source: Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Effectiveness Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Findings From a Large Observational Study in Israel by Yaki Saciuk, Jennifer Kertes, Micha Mandel, Beatriz Hemo, Naama Shamir Stein, Anat Ekka Zohar :: SSRN

The other woman in my life

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Midlife, for most men, quickly turn to be a bull grind of momentous boredom. With its very repetitive array of compulsive chores, a humdrum of listless food for every meal and an eminently predictable behaviour of indifference among all around you, life in the fifties, far from being exciting, is, in fact a full-blown crisis. You are expected to pay all the utility and non-utility bills of every family member and on time, gulp down to the last morsel the “diet meal” served on the plate without a murmur and mentally rehearse the sentence a couple of times before you let out a request for permission to switch off that overworked air-conditioner! Life suddenly looks drudgery as you silently crave for that one person to come to your life and bring back the zing and zest to it. And I am happy and immensely thrilled to have found that person…

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