COVID: Public Health Experts Pen Concerns About Plasma to PSA VijayRaghavan
11/05/2021
A pouch of convalescent plasma from a person who recovered from COVID-19. Photo: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters
When the number of COVID-19 cases began to surge in many parts of India from late April, the Centre’s and various state government’s failure to anticipate the second wave, and the inability of the Indian people at large to withstand it without additional protections, became glaringly obvious. A shortage of oxygen and antiviral and palliative drugs soon followed. With government help out of sight, people took to the social media to coordinate the verification, discovery and supply of oxygen and drugs by themselves.