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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
by LordAtlas 5y ago
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/ https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/
- 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...
- 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
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
- blntechie 5y agoDeleting as duplicate.
- 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.