but supplying vaccines is one thing. convincing people to take them is another there are pros and there are. you ready to meet the devil and very right to. the last mile of covert vaccine delivery from state capital to india's hinterlands . india aims to vaccinate 300000000 people by july. a mammoth logistical challenge. for infrastructure roads traffic chaos stand between delivery drivers and patients. but supplying vaccines is one thing. convincing people to take them is another. then someone told me that

people are fainting they're developing a fever and some are dying after taking the injection that's why i was frightened. it's. a survey indicates as many as 62 percent of indians are reluctant to get the vaccine. or count on that in a moment with dr randy the author of the bestseller so we win india's fight against the covered 19 pandemic 1st though this report from the mirror chaldron. 37 years old. it's a big day today she's going to get her 4th dose of the call that 1000 vaccine. has been working as a nurse at a private hospital in delhi put 3 years and has been a hit for over 20 years now as a head worker during the pandemic she has been worried about the safety off her family against the widest. i had to take

care tony that there are little children in our family and i was concerned about their health i had to stay in a separate room keep my clothes and shoes separately maintain proper hygiene constantly use sanitizers i had to take care of the smallest pains. guitar is one of the 1st in line in the country to receive the vaccine for the widest. india is in the middle of what is being called the world's largest covered 19 immunization program. in the 1st round of the vaccine rollout the government aims to vaccinate about 30000000 health workers and other frontline workers. vaccines so far have been given images the use approved by the country's. politics the oxford astra zeneca job in india and vaccine and indigenous vaccine developed by part of biotech but as the country takes a crucial step towards battling the pandemic many concerns loom large there are

questions being briefed on core vaccine getting approval from indian authorities without its efficacy data in place as its 50 trials are still underway some experts say that this is a break from established protocol and could lead to a loss of best trust among people who however there's no clear consensus on this issue in the medical community dr verrinder as john a leading that's knowledge it says the approval to call vaccine has been given relying on the data of immunogenicity and safety. he says such images see government approvals are not uncommon in unusual circumstances. have. to accept. to come in the. transfer should then. using 2 people. even though there are anxious voices regarding the image and the approval many

working in the health care sector confident that that's the nation is the right step to take. this is a highly contagious disease so it was important for the back phoenician to start. he does now almost through the mandy tree 30 minute observation pedia course vaccination she said she has started feeling more secure against the corona by this and is eagerly awaiting the 2nd dose i'm now joined by dr randy quinn area he's the director of all india institute of medical sciences a member of the country's covered 19 task force we heard earlier that 62 percent of indians are hesitant to get the vaccine can you explain that skepticism so i think i've seen his didn't see is there which is a global phenomenon and it's there in india also a lot of or indians want to see others get the right scene and get confidence that it is safe it's picked up now and now it's crossed even 70 percent so i think the 1st week of 2 acts in rollout in india had

a lot of his it is easy especially among health care workers but now it has big government of confident that it will continue to increase over the next few weeks but it was the health care workers and the elderly who had to get vaccinated 1st as opposed to younger working people who are usually more mobile and i know half the population in india is under $25.00 with that of being a better strategy for india. so this was looked at and this is also as for the little guy claims the front line workers and the elderly who don't want ality is high for me i would be vaccinated 1st and this is basically to basically do 2 things one is to decrease the mortality and mortality was hired in the elderly and those commodities and therefore they became productivity and secondly is to really motivate our health care workers and they are getting exposed because of the type of work that they're doing the full care workers of franklin workers and if we do actually need them 1st after that we would move on to the younger age group what

about the spread of the virus there were in parts of the country that are so densely populated so we've had multiple spikes in the last last year to me just by x. and another one but currently our cases are down we are actually seeing a very low number of cases are in our country now and it seems as if the worst is over also our mortality is less and if you actually look at the cases per 1000000. then our numbers are very very low and i think india has actually done really read both in terms of number of cases per 1000000 and arcus fertility rate which is also the lowest in the world what about the speed of this actual vaccine campaign i.v. infrastructure in india can be quite challenging. so we have a universal human addition program which we learn

a new lease of where we vaccinate young children and they need women and that has been the backbone of the program that now is being done for vaccinating over 19 and a number of dryden's have been done to make sure that the courts investment in the vaccination vaccinating sites are appropriate vaccinators have been trained to execute individuals and of all when it has been created so that individuals can be sent a message that you're due for recognition they can come on that particular did you have a huge task even in the 1st of. us that we were in to do we are actually having to rights need 300000000 people so that is a huge number of people that we need to actually even just in the 1st please and that is equal to the population of many countries combined but we're rolling it out and we're hopeful that we should be able to achieve it in the coming few months how is india managing to do this i know some people have to travel 2 days to get to

a hospital for example considering those challenges how is india managing to do such a good job in your opinion at least from what you're saying so we like as told you we have a universal notion program we also have had a pulse pull your program which we've had over the last few years and we've eliminated all year from india we've also don't do a very aggressive election campaign lectionary every 5 years and state elections are also held every 5 years so using the same model the 2 are like the election modern we will have a vaccination sites in different areas both open and rule in the us colonies itself and vaccinators will be treated there so that it's close to people's house and they can come and get themselves like senator briefly finally can you tell us when india will be fully vaccinated. that's a tough question we have a huge number of for people we have more than 1300000000 people so it's going to

take a huge time but i'm quite confident that at least a sufficient mass of people would be vaccinated in the next 7 to 8 months of by the end of the year so that we see that we have something in a good immunity in our population the height of his group is protective so that the mortality is low and combined with the degree of cases that we have in the immunity are going because of natural infection i think we will have achieved some degree of herd immunity by then by the middle of this year about the canary i thank you very much thank you. it's a part of the show where our science correspondent eric williams answers your questions on the current of arts. 95 percent vaccine effectiveness what does that mean the other 5 percent of recipients pashley protected or not protected at all i agree that this statistic can be confusing so let's look for a minute at exactly how pfizer and by on tech arrived at it based on their data the

companies and rolled over 40000 subjects in what's called a double blinded trial which means neither the participants nor the vaccine administrators knew who was getting the vaccine and who was getting a placebo subjects' had a 5050 chance of getting one or the other they were of various ages from various countries and they were racially and ethnically diverse after administration it was a waiting game the trial coordinators basically had to wait for participants to begin getting sick when statistically relevant numbers of people got ill the results were evaluated the coordinators looked to see how many people got sick in each of the 2 groups when the initial results from the trial were published it reported 170 symptomatic cases of covert 19 among all trial

participants and 162 of them were in the placebo group so some 95 percent of them among the vaccinated only 8 people had symptomatic over $1000.00 so you could also say that for every one vaccinated person who got it around 20 unvaccinated people dead and pretty much every group and age appeared for all intents and purposes to be protected pretty much equally on to the 2nd question now when they experienced symptoms of covert 19 despite having received the vaccine just. well sick did those 8 trial subjects get well only one of them got it badly enough to require hospitalization in the placebo group 9 people ended up in the hospital so so there was a dramatic impact there as well indicating

a pretty strongly that if you're vaccinated there's a small chance that you might still get cope at 19 in spite of that but also an extremely good chance that if you do it will be a mild case. therefore you say i'm been physical and thanks for watching say safe as you get sick here on the gulf.

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