Looking at the world from the lens of Logic & Data, particularly about Economy, Geo-politics & Supply Chains
As the world has seen multiple Covid waves in the last ~2 years and as vaccines have been rolled out to billions of people over the last 12 months, there is enough real-life data on vaccine effectiveness for laymen like us to understand. Unlike earlier expectations, vaccines have not magically pushed out Covid and reverted …
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Sometime in May this year, amidst a ravaging second wave, and all-round talks about vaccine scarcity, Indian authorities came out with this plan to procure 2 Bn vaccine doses by this year end. Math was rather simple, ~1 Bn eligible adults, 2X vaccination doses, and hence we needed 2 Bn vaccination doses to vaccinate all …
Even developed countries with degree of awareness, education and ease of access, are facing a resistance in pushing vaccination levels above 50% of eligible population. Beyond this point, pace of vaccination(availability of willing people) drops significantly
As the United States grapples with another deadly wave of Covid-19 pandemic, while vaccinations levels were already 40%+ (fully vaccinated) for the population as far back as in May itself, there is a sense of unease and question marks on vaccine effectiveness. Looking closely at the data, USA numbers on face value raises some obvious questions.. …