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India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by bkishan »

reacharavindh wrote: post #19
ghoomketu wrote: post #13

Modi govt gets a lot of hate in India but we should also give credit where it is due, like for this. An indecisive leader or one heading a coalition govt probably couldn't have done it like this.

Keeping the voters alive and dealing with a public health emergency is a basic job of the government. I am not going to praise a leader for doing their job. I would have praised if they did exceptionally well, and rapidly set up a way to manufacture vaccines in a war-time urgency and made the vaccines available much earlier than they did. I have family in India, and they have no hesitation to get the vaccines. It jus…

Pfizer is still not authorised in India. Moderna is authorised but practically unavailable.

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Post by blntechie »

LordAtlas wrote: post #7

Please note this is total doses, i.e., adding up people who've got the first dose and the second dose, so it's double-counting people who've got both. The more accurate number is 290 million, which is how many people have got both doses. Our population is 1.3 billion, so we're still a long way away. https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/

At this point, I believe everyone knows this. > The more accurate number is 290 million Why this is the only ‘accurate’ number? Both doses and people are perfectly accurate numbers. Maybe you meant more ‘relevant’ or ‘important’ number.

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Post by blueblisters »

ghostcluster wrote: post #18

By way of comparison, China has administered at least 2,232,088,000 doses of COVID vaccines so far https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...

1B is very impressive but more than twice that in the same time really puts the capacity, scale and reach of the Chinese State at a different level. Still I am curious why China is not opening up the borders to visitors?

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Post by OJFord »

LordAtlas wrote: post #7

Please note this is total doses, i.e., adding up people who've got the first dose and the second dose, so it's double-counting people who've got both. The more accurate number is 290 million, which is how many people have got both doses. Our population is 1.3 billion, so we're still a long way away. https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/

Well, yes, it does say 'doses', (not 'people dosed' or whatever) I don't think that's at all misleading? (Maybe the title's been updated?)

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Post by dilawar »

ghoomketu wrote: post #13

Modi govt gets a lot of hate in India but we should also give credit where it is due, like for this. An indecisive leader or one heading a coalition govt probably couldn't have done it like this.

From BJP's IT cell?

Sarcasm aside, look at the economy: >-20% dip in pandemic. Heck even Pakistan manages to keep its haad above the water. And Bangladesh has more per capita income.

But hey, Bhakti is what bhakt do.

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Post by blntechie »

LordAtlas wrote: post #7

Please note this is total doses, i.e., adding up people who've got the first dose and the second dose, so it's double-counting people who've got both. The more accurate number is 290 million, which is how many people have got both doses. Our population is 1.3 billion, so we're still a long way away. https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/

Deleting as duplicate.

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Post by noja »

OJFord wrote: post #25
LordAtlas wrote: post #7

Please note this is total doses, i.e., adding up people who've got the first dose and the second dose, so it's double-counting people who've got both. The more accurate number is 290 million, which is how many people have got both doses. Our population is 1.3 billion, so we're still a long way away. https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/

Well, yes, it does say 'doses', (not 'people dosed' or whatever) I don't think that's at all misleading? (Maybe the title's been updated?)

You are right. But the article is still purposefully misleading. Ask yourself why they chose to lead with the big number of doses rather than the number of people vaccinated. The answer is that it looks better, and gives the casual reader the impression that more has been done. It requires extra brainwork to remember that for j&j 1 dose=1 complete vaccination; for pfizer 2 doses=1 complete vaccination; and so on.
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