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Doctors Say It’s Only a Matter of Time Before Virus Sweeps India

  • “This is just an interval period,” before surge: Cochin doctor
  • Indian health system ranked near bottom globally for resources
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It’s the phone calls at all hours of the night he remembers. As swine flu ravaged northern India in 2015, a radiologist working at a hospital in a Delhi suburb said people would call begging for a bed.