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India. It is an enigma that why is India's response to Covid-19 gets ignored. India to date has vaccinated more people than Israel and has one of the least CFR per capita.


Now I will get downvotes from India, but let's try:

It is percent of population that matters not absolute number of vaccinated people. Israel is near 70%, while India is only 0.5% [1].

CFR per capita, while looks good (113.97 deaths per million) is not actually good compared to Mongolia (0.62 deaths per million)[2]. You know, who else is doing well - Belarus (195.31 deaths per million). I don't believe Belarus numbers as all countries around are burning (500+ deaths per million). Could it be that India is faking it as well? Based on corruption index [3] it is even worse than Belarus.

sources:

[1] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/?areas=gbr&are...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index



> It is percent of population that matters not absolute number of vaccinated people. Israel is near 70%, while India is only 0.5% [1].

Which is more commendable considering the vastness of the land itself. Israel == Delhi and surrounding reasons.

Given the economic parameters of the country, it has better CFR than US, Italy, Germany and UK. Thats pretty amazing considering the health expenditure and wealth of US, Italy, Germany, UK is enormously high than India.

As when number fudging that is not happening.You can look at data from independent foreign houses stationed in India.


There is another elephant in the room:

* Average age in India 26.8

* Average age in countries you are comparing with is 38+

And about independent foreign houses: sources please :)


Very proud of the great success of India here. Was very worried they would have a calamity but they have managed it better than anyone else in my opinion


You're right I haven't been looking at india's numbers. I'll keep a closer eye on it from now on.




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