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India Counting Down to 1B Doses
- LordAtlas 5y agoPlease 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/ https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/
- kumarvvr 5y agoIndia's population is 1.3 Billion. 26.16% of that are children. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/271315/age-distribution-in-india/ 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.
- quietbritishjim 5y ago> 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.
- nulbyte 5y agoIf a billion people need two doses, that's two billion doses. One billion is halfway there, leaving one billion left.
- quietbritishjim 5y agoThe parent comment said > So, about 1 Billion [people] ... and then > Out of that 1 Billion are almost done. To me, they're saying "out of 1 Billion people needing the vaccine, 1 Billion people are almost done". Whatever the detail of what they meant, "almost done" is an odd way to describe being only (just under) halfway through the process.
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- blntechie 5y agoAt 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.
- OJFord 5y agoWell, 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?)
- noja 5y agoYou 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.
- bayesian_horse 5y agoStill quite respectacle, if not impressive. And every dose, be it the first or the second, has to be produced, bought, shipped and administered to a Human being who has been convinced to take it...
- sameerds 5y agoIt would be nice if every Indian managed to get vaccinated. And it's easy to get distracted by the observation that 290 million is smaller than a billion. But the important thing is that those 290 million are concentrated around urban areas. That goes a long way in breaking the chain. It's okay if logistics makes it very difficult to reach every remote rural place for now. We'll get there eventually.
- NilayK 5y ago290 million fully vaccinated and 1,390 million total population. :) [1 crore = 10 million]
- sampo 5y ago3rd doses are coming, and seem to give a good and needed additional boost to immunity (this is true for many other vaccines as well). 2 doses won't be "fully vaccinated" after one more year.
- helge9210 5y ago> 3rd doses are coming, and seem to give a good and needed additional boost to immunity Did you mean antibody count? > 2 doses won't be "fully vaccinated" after one more year Purely administrative decision
- blntechie 5y agoDeleting as duplicate.
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- skocznymroczny 5y agoProponents of vaccines claim that we have to vaccinate most people and then we can 'go back to normal'. Is there any country with high vaccination rate that has gone back to normal? By normal I'd assume no mask mandates, outdoor or indoor, no vaccine passports of any kind. It seems that even the countries that are over 90% vaccinated are still struggling just as much as the other countries.
- WalterGR 5y ago> It seems that even the countries that are over 90% vaccinated are still struggling just as much as the other countries. Only one country has reached 90%. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations How is the UAE doing compared to other countries?
- krishvs 5y agoI was in the Uae for 5 days last week and travelling again tomorrow. For me it looks like pre-covid times - everything is open. Cricket matches in stadiums to dubai expo. They report < 100 cases per day but no one really believes those numbers to be true. Mask wearing( atleast properly ) was maybe 40-50%. Countries like Oman with lower vaccination rates felt much safer because everyone seemed to take mask wearing much more seriously.
- revax 5y agoIn my country (France) only +12yo are eligible for the vaccination and we are currently at 86.1% fully vaccinated in this population (88.3% with at least one dose). Are we talking about the whole population or only eligible people?
- WalterGR 5y agoGreat question. I haven’t checked the methodology of the site I linked.
- Lapsa 5y agoCitizens Fully Vaccinated NaN Crore + NaN Lakh
- known 5y ago21%
- Camillo 5y ago> India Counting Down to 1B Doses Misleading, disingenuous, mendacious title. They're clearly counting _up_.
- sidpatil 5y agoShouldn't that be "counting up"?
- amriksohata 5y agowell done india
- tpmx 5y agoPrecular design choice to change the aspect ratio of the main graphic/photo based on the browser window width.
- neals 5y agobackground-size : cover / contain ... why not both?
- RicoElectrico 5y agoWhy do people make such mistakes in 2021? Who thought it's going to look OK?
- account42 5y agoThey 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.
- crummy 5y agoA 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?
- ra7 5y agoIt’s the Indian numeral system: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
- deepakkarki 5y agoYes, India doesn't use millions and billions, but lakhs and crores. 10 lakh = 1 million 100 lakh = 1 crore
- addicted 5y agoYes. Indians don’t usually break numbers down by the thousands. After thousand, numbers are usually grouped by the hundreds. So, for example, Indians usually use: Number: Indian Term/Others 1000: Thousand/Thousand 100,000: Lac/Hundred Thousand 1,000,000: 10 Lac/Million 1,00,00,000: Crore/Ten Million and so on…
- kumarvvr 5y agoYes. 100 - Hundred 1,000 - Thousand 1,00,000 - Lakh 1,00,00,000 - Crore We don't use millions here.
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoYes, Indian Numeral System is different. Thousand is Thousand. Hundred Thousand is 1 Lakh. 1 Million is 10 Lakhs. 10 Million is 1 Crore. 1 Billion is 100 Crores.
- OJFord 5y agoThe 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 crore Vs. 1.0 billion This would no doubt be an entry in a hypothetical 'falsehoods programmers believe about numbers'! I.e. use things like Intl.NumberFormat in the browser, rather than home-grown 'group 3 digits and insert a comma then join again'. (* yes, I'm going to conveniently ignore 'hundred' and its occasional/domain use like 'twelve hundred'.)
- ing33k 5y agowow, the website has a link to OpenAPI https://apisetu.gov.in/api/cowin https://apisetu.gov.in/api/cowin Nice !
- rathish_g 5y agoOpen APIs : https://apisetu.gov.in/ https://apisetu.gov.in/ Datasets : https://data.gov.in/ https://data.gov.in/ Attendance of all government employees : https://attendance.gov.in/ https://attendance.gov.in/
- xony 5y agofake
- ghoomketu 5y agoModi 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.
- paxys 5y agoModi's photo is the largest thing on that page, and on every vaccine card. Lack of credit is never his problem.
- webmobdev 5y agoModi Only World Leader to Use COVID Vaccination Certificate to Push Cult of Personality - https://thewire.in/government/india-only-nation-to-use-covid-vaccination-certificate-to-push-cult-of-leader-ruling-party https://thewire.in/government/india-only-nation-to-use-covid...
- vadfa 5y agoI have always found that amusing. What a god complex that guy has. But hey if it works it works.
- bwb 5y agoIt doesn't work so well for muslims in India... https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/21/india-muslims-deported-terrified-citizenship-amendment-act-caa/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/21/india-muslims-deported-... https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/india https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/india
- samarthr1 5y agoI think you may find that when illegal migrants get deported, the security of the nation improves... I live in Hyderabad, the place where the Dilsukhnagar blasts happened. Don't remember hearing of any major jihadist attacks on the past seven years or so... Success of a government no?
- jayp1418 5y agoCongratulations. Nice work.
- ghostcluster 5y agoBy 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-maps/countries-and-territories/china/ https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...
- Synaesthesia 5y agoand donated another billion
- blueblisters 5y ago1B 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?
- calltrak 5y agolots of great information about the killshots up on https://bitchute.com https://bitchute.com. You could not pay me to take that poison.
- eynsham 5y agoThe 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 slowly (not a fault unique to it): > India’s daily vaccinations surpassed 10 million doses on Friday, with national vaccine production more than doubling since April and set to rise again in the coming weeks.² 0: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinat... 1: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-19-vaccination-doses https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-19-vaccinatio... 2: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/30/india-covid-vaccine-supply-export https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/30/india-covid-vaccine...
- mckirk 5y agoI believe this is the graph you want: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccination-doses-per-capita 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.
- freddie_mercury 5y agoThat'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.
- mckirk 5y agoIt'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.
- option_greek 5y agoAs per the serology report that comes out once in a while that uses random sampling, most cities/towns/places have 60-70% people already having anti bodies. It is assumed that almost everyone acquired immunity due to infection at this point in India. However, there is almost no antivax moment as such in India so vaccination will continue throttled only by the availability (with 3 more companies nearing approvals for their new vaccines). Vaccines at this point are serving the same purpose as a booster shot (with the long duration between the shots probably helping).
- prvc 5y agoThe number of doses administered should be not decrease as time increases.
- niranjanbalu13 5y agoAt 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
- yeshok 5y agoAnd, I know a few people who were vaccinated, but the dose did not get registered. In some cases, this was purposefully done - so that they could get the dose while they were below the age floor (at that time). In other cases, this was accidental - the hospital staff simply neglected to put it into the system, and no one cared.
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- 1cvmask 5y agoThis is very impressive that they got to this level despite starting late due to the Joe Biden vaccine raw materials embargo on India: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-serum-idUSKBN2C30ZS https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-...