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Uncertainty and mass anxiety in India have fanned the spread of misinformation over the coronavirus, according to analysts, as fake news about vaccines and the origins of the country's devastating se…
Indian reporters find new ways to expose ‘vaccine inequity’ and COVID-19 data
ICIJ partners have had to innovate and adapt how they uncover critical information on the crisis, while calling for more government transparency. May 11, 2021 Journalist Barkha Dutt reports from Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in New Delhi on June 12, 2020, after authorities eased restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Dutt has driven the length and breadth of India, 23,000 kilometers over more than 100 days, to tell how the country’s poor have suffered in the pandemic.
In early 2021, reporters at The Indian Express had just begun to go back to the newsroom for occasional small meetings after nearly a year of working remotely, when news about India’s “double mutant,” a coronavirus variant, started to spread.
Thousands of Indian Women Forgo COVID Protocols to Pray for Pandemic s End
On 5/5/21 at 5:00 PM EDT
Thousands of devotees violated COVID-19 restrictions when they gathered in the city of Sanand in Gujarat, India, on Monday to pray for the end of the pandemic.
Video of the mass gathering of women offering water at the Navapura village in Sanand Taluka went viral on Wednesday, according to
RepublicWorld. The women marched as music played and gathered near the Baliyadev Temple, breaching social distancing guidelines and assembling without wearing face masks. The procession took place amid a local priest claiming the nation s ongoing second COVID-19 surge was because the gods are angry, which prompted locals to take spiritual action.
Did Political And Media Rhetoric Against Vaccination Cause Additional Deaths?
by Jai Menon - May 3, 2021 11:28 AM
The forces against the BJP (Photo by Arijit Sen/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Snapshot
An example of an anti-vaccine exhortation is a short video which shows a Muslim cleric saying that the vaccine has a chip in it which will control your mind .
Could it be that the steady drumbeat of political, mainstream media and social media rhetoric creating doubt in the public mind about the efficacy of vaccines increased the death-count from COVID-19 in India over the past few weeks?
The answer seems to be: âpossiblyâ. Letâs take a look, drawing on polls conducted between October and April; readers may, of course, draw their own conclusions.