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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)
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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.
Vaccine awareness needs to go far beyond people like us
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The Indian Express caught my eye last week. It reported that in Gurugram, Haryana (where I live), the local district authorities are worried by an uptick in the number of covid cases and are planning to intensify and ramp up the government’s ongoing vaccination drive. The aim, according to the report, is to increase the number of hospitals administering covid vaccines.
However, a closer look at this ‘ramping up’ shows just how skewed the approach is: five hospitals have been selected to run 24-hour vaccination clinics, only one of which is a public facility. The other four are exclusive and expensive private hospitals. I would imagine that the poor, even if they wish to pay the ₹250 fee for a shot, will not easily be granted entry to these spaces. Another report, this one by Payel Majumdar Upreti in