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Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by wtmt »

OJFord wrote: post #38
crummy wrote: post #2

A bit odd topic but the commas seem strange in the numbers there: >Total Vaccination Doses: 1,00,13,38,625 Is that an Indian thing?

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…

> use things like Intl.NumberFormat in the browser, rather than home-grown 'group 3 digits and insert a comma then join again'.

That home grown solution wouldn’t work in many western countries either, where comma is a decimal separator and dot/period is the thousands separator.

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by OJFord »

wtmt wrote: post #71
OJFord wrote: post #38

Earlier 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…

> use things like Intl.NumberFormat in the browser, rather than home-grown 'group 3 digits and insert a comma then join again'. That home grown solution wouldn’t work in many western countries either, where comma is a decimal separator and dot/period is the thousands separator.

Yep, true. But don't be tempted just to iterate on it to take account of that and whatever you discover next!

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by rockyj »

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.

Willing to take credit sure, but what about the millions of deaths, where were the politicians when the 2nd wave hit and millions lost their lives (election duties and rallies right before).

Not even a single press conference was given when people needed some empathy, leadership or assurance. Imagine, the scenario in USA or Germany where thousands are dying every day, and the top brass of the country has nothing to say.

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by nulbyte »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #66
kumarvvr wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If a billion people need two doses, that's two billion doses. One billion is halfway there, leaving one billion left.

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by einszwei »

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.

I would be surprised if India didn't set a record. The fact that it took India so long to reach this milestone is almost embarrassing. India has in fact a very sophisticated network of trained vaccinators, cold chain equipment, surveillance of disease even at semi-rural level combined with being home to largest vaccine manufacturer.

It took Supreme Court of India's criticism for this government to finally get their act in order on Covid Vaccination Program.

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by redis_mlc »

bildung wrote: post #50
redis_mlc wrote: post #41

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> 1B is very impressive Those are Sino* vaccines, which are only about 51% effective. (WHO considers 50% to be ineffective.)

Sinovac is said to be 51% effective at preventing symptoms, but 87%-100% effective at preventing hospitalization or death. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57817591

You realize that "no vaccine" is 99.8% effective in the US at preventing death, right?

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by qiqitori »

plinkplonk wrote: post #67
paxys wrote: post #14

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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!

The coronavirus relief stimulus checks in the US had Trump's signature on them.

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by account42 »

tpmx wrote: post #6

Precular design choice to change the aspect ratio of the main graphic/photo based on the browser window width.

They do actually adjust the height at fixed breakpoints to keep the aspect ratio somewhat stable - not a perfect solution, but they tried. To be fair, browser designers really dragged their feet on adding a proper CSS solution for full-width content with a fixed aspect ratio. And even now, what we have is hardly as simple as it could be.

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

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Post by mckirk »

freddie_mercury wrote: post #70
mckirk wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's a vastly more useful comparison than simply going by absolute numbers, though. A larger country will have more people to vaccinate, but also more infrastructure to get this done.

If you want to compare countries by how well they are able to vaccinate their population, doses-per-capita is exactly the measure you want.

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