> India Counting Down to 1B Doses
Misleading, disingenuous, mendacious title. They're clearly counting _up_.
India Counting Down to 1B Doses
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#62Modi 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.
The dear leader refused to fund free vaccines for people under 40. Instead, states were pitted against each other to procure doses It wasn't until the Supreme Court got involved that the government backtracked. So much for being decisive . And everyone from the Central Board of Secondary Education to state owned enterprises were made to put up posters thanking Modiji for the vaccines. Because you, know he's funding t…
> The dear leader refused to fund free vaccines for people under 40.
My wife and I are under 40 and we got the vaccine for free at a government health centre.
> Instead, states were pitted against each other to procure doses
Initially all vaccine supply was routed through the centre. Then some states like Delhi and Maharashtra asked to be allowed to procure vaccines on their own. This was in the early days when the vaccine supply was less. When they didn't get any interest from sellers they again asked the centre to procure it for them [1][2]. By then SII (Covishield) in particular had scaled up sufficiently to be able to supply enough vaccines.
1. https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2021/may/27/ke...
2. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/uddhav-thackeray...
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
The words for the orders of magnitude don't group by thousand like in English (*thousand, million, billion, and so on) but by thousand (hazaar), hundred thousand (lakh), ten million (crore), and I don't know what next. So the comma separation reflects the words, as in English. > 38,625 38 hazaar ... Vs. 38 thousand ... > 13,38,625 vs. 1,338,625 13 lakh ... Vs. 1.3 million ... > 1,00,13,38,625 vs. 1,001,338,625 100 cr…
> The words for the orders of magnitude don't group by thousand like in English It's not only in English, as far as I know it's almost everywhere else, the entire Western world plus its former colonies and I think even places like China. The Indian subcontinent is the exception.
Chinese uses powers of ten thousand, I believe, but I don't know if that's reflected in the way numerals are written.
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#64Precular design choice to change the aspect ratio of the main graphic/photo based on the browser window width.
Why do people make such mistakes in 2021? Who thought it's going to look OK?
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#65The union government claims here and elsewhere that it is administering ‘the world’s largest vaccination drive’. I wish it were true. But China is far ahead.⁰ The website also remarks on a ‘world record of 2.5 Cr+ Vaccinations in a day’: China has reached nearly 3 crore (=30 million) as a weekly mean.¹ Vaccination was an opportunity to shine in comparison to China, but the union government seems to have moved rather…
I believe this is the graph you want: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccination-doses-p...
Yes, China is far ahead of India, but Cuba, the UAE and Urugay are far ahead of China.
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#66Please 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/
India's population is 1.3 Billion. 26.16% of that are children. ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/271315/age-distribution-... ) So, about 1 Billion require 2 doses of vaccination. Out of that 1 Billion are almost done. A long way to go, but an impressive journey so far.
> Out of that 1 Billion are almost done.
Assuming you mean 1b have had at least 1 dose, I don't think that's true. If 1b doses have been given, and ~300m people have had 2 doses (i.e. consumed 600m doses), that surely means ~400m doses were left. So a total of 700m people have had one or more doses.
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#67Modi 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.
Modi's photo is the largest thing on that page, and on every vaccine card. Lack of credit is never his problem.
Imagine if Joe Biden's photo was on every vaccine card issued in the USA!
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#68The number of doses administered should be not decrease as time increases.
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#69At least 5% of this data is bogus. I know 6 people who didn't get the dose but got a confirmation sms and I know very few people
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#70The union government claims here and elsewhere that it is administering ‘the world’s largest vaccination drive’. I wish it were true. But China is far ahead.⁰ The website also remarks on a ‘world record of 2.5 Cr+ Vaccinations in a day’: China has reached nearly 3 crore (=30 million) as a weekly mean.¹ Vaccination was an opportunity to shine in comparison to China, but the union government seems to have moved rather…
I believe this is the graph you want: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccination-doses-p... Yes, China is far ahead of India, but Cuba, the UAE and Urugay are far ahead of China.
That's not an especially useful comparison, though. Cuba and the UAE combined are about the same population as Wuhan, which is a city nobody had even heard of 2 years ago.
Not to discount their success but small countries will always have an easier job than larger ones, since geographic and population scales make everything harder.
I'm pretty sure you can find municipalities of 10-20 million people in China that are more vaccinated that UAE or Cuba.