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India Counting Down to 1B Doses

by neelkadia on 10/21/21, 4:17 AM with 112 comments

• by ing33k on 10/21/21, 7:12 AM

  wow, the website has a link to OpenAPI https://apisetu.gov.in/api/cowin Nice !

• by ghoomketu on 10/21/21, 7:16 AM

  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.

• by tpmx on 10/21/21, 6:44 AM

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

• by LordAtlas on 10/21/21, 6:45 AM

  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/

• by 1cvmask on 10/21/21, 2:10 PM

  This 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-...

• by jayp1418 on 10/21/21, 7:31 AM

  Congratulations. Nice work.

• by eynsham on 10/21/21, 9:47 AM

  The 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-vaccinat...

  1: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-19-vaccinatio...

  2: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/30/india-covid-vaccine...

• by ghostcluster on 10/21/21, 8:00 AM

  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...

• by niranjanbalu13 on 10/21/21, 10:58 AM

  At 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

• by crummy on 10/21/21, 6:11 AM

  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?

• by prvc on 10/21/21, 10:51 AM

  The number of doses administered should be not decrease as time increases.

• by sidpatil on 10/21/21, 1:46 PM

  Shouldn't that be "counting up"?

• by skocznymroczny on 10/21/21, 9:08 AM

  Proponents 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.

• by option_greek on 10/21/21, 10:06 AM

  As 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).

• by amriksohata on 10/21/21, 7:40 PM

  well done india

• by Lapsa on 10/21/21, 10:05 AM

  Citizens Fully Vaccinated

  NaN Crore + NaN Lakh

• by Camillo on 10/21/21, 10:09 AM

  > India Counting Down to 1B Doses

  Misleading, disingenuous, mendacious title. They're clearly counting _up_.