COVID-19: These Countries Are Running Low on Oxygen

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published May 26, 8:05AM EDT

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As COVID-19 has spread across the world, one of the most precious commodities has become oxygen, used to treat terribly ill people. There are consistent accounts, most recently in India, where oxygen has run low in some regions and this has caused deaths. Several nations have the most severe problems, which may get much worst.

According to the Guardian, “Dozens of countries are facing severe oxygen shortages because of surging Covid-19 cases, threatening the ‘total collapse’ of health systems.” To locate the countries where this problem is the worst, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism looked at data from the Every Breath Counts Coalition and non-governmental organizations PATH and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). It also examined global vaccination rates. It found that 19 nations faced extreme risk.
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The experts from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism wrote:

As of this month, 19 countries around the world – including Argentina, Colombia, Iran, Nepal, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Costa Rica and South Africa – need more than 50,000 cubic metres a day for coronavirus patients. That need has risen rapidly between mid-March and mid-May. In nearly all of these countries, fewer than one in 10 people have received a dose of a vaccine.

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Other nations that made the list were Bangladesh Jordan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

Click here to read the entire Bureau of Investigative Journalism report.
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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.