Republican Covid lies follow foreign strongmen’s lead – and are deadly for it | Robert Reich

India and Russia show what happens when authoritarians deny reality. The Trumpists would have the US follow suit

A hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, is being charged under the country's National Security Act for sounding the alarm over a lack of oxygen that resulted in Covid deaths. The hospital's owner and manager says police have accused him of false scaremongering", after he stated publicly that four patients died on a single day when oxygen ran out.

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