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Not as many hospitalizations, but not good news for stopping the pandemic.

Fully vaccinated people make up quarter of new COVID-19 infections in Los Angeles County
During a period from July 1 through 16, the county reported 13,598 cases, and the unvaccinated represented 74% of all the cases. Fully vaccinated residents accounted for 26% of infections, or 3,592 cases.
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A slightly off topic question for science types.

What is the reason a cure for common cold has not been found?
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Pratyush wrote:A slightly off topic question for science types.

What is the reason a cure for common cold has not been found?
The flu virus is a very fast evolving virus. The flu virus changes its RNA very fast, which makes it difficult to develop an effective vaccine. Having said that lets see if the mRNA vaccine technique which has proven it self against Corona may provide a new way to attack the flu virus
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So BLR has 85% of its population which has received at least one dose of vaccine.

Bengaluru fares well with 85% of population getting at least one dose of vaccine
Hopefully in 3rd wave, BLR will see less deaths & hospitalizations...
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Fully vaccinated people make up quarter of new COVID-19 infections in Los Angeles County
Seen MANY such irresponsible and absolutely silly headlines showing very little understanding of even the basic math.

Math/stat 101: (Example):

A village has 100 people.
99 of them vaccinated. 1 is not.
2 people become sick with Covid, 1 of whom is the unvaccinated person.
Media: “50% of cases occurred in the vaccinated!!”

This is what we’re seeing, and it’s irresponsible reporting.


Good question for Media to report/analyze: What proportion of vaccinated people are winding up in hospital vs. unvaccinated (proportion).

That’s the true number. And the stats are clear: only a tiny fraction.

The media needs to do better!
(See my post on the previous page: - The *same* data analyzed in statistically sensible way: For infections the vaccines effectiveness is 88% ( 1:8 ratio the chance for fully vaccinated people to get infected vs chance for non-vaccinated people - not ideal but still very good-

For Hospitalization this ratio is about 1:25 ! (That gives effectiveness at 96%)
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No. The Yahoo article is about new infections in Los Angeles County, not the hospitalization ratio.
During a period from July 1 through 16, the county reported 13,598 cases, and the unvaccinated represented 74% of all the cases. Fully vaccinated residents accounted for 26% of infections, or 3,592 cases, Ferrer shared.

"There's not even 1/10th of a hospitalization per hundred thousand people for vaccinated people," Ferrer added.
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Pratyush wrote:A slightly off topic question for science types.

What is the reason a cure for common cold has not been found?
From a layman terms, Rhinovirus, as the one that gives us the common cold and is called rhino not because humans started eating rhinoceros but in latin rhinos means of the nose, have some ~100+ types (or variants) among 3 sub-species.

Hence a vaccine has to target all 3 sub-species and almost all of the documented variants. Making such a vaccine is complex and costly compared to the over the counter remedies for symptom management. Only way to get around the common cold is to get common cold every year. Maybe 4-5 times a year as a child. That also boosts your immune system.
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Also, most often you get immunity from that particular rhino virus once it infects you. That is the reason while children keep getting colds constantly older people get less and less colds. Also not being fatal there is no money to develop a vaccine.
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46,72,59,775 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741102 [31 JUL 2021 8:05PM Saturday]
46,06,56,534 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1740863 [30 JUL 2021 8:08PM Friday]

Total for Saturday July 31: 66,03,241 doses

The month of July ends with a bang! More than 13 crore doses were administered this month.

Cumulative First Dose = 36,39,50,377 doses
Cumulative Second Dose = 10,33,09,398 doses
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rajkumar wrote:
Pratyush wrote:A slightly off topic question for science types.

What is the reason a cure for common cold has not been found?
The flu virus is a very fast evolving virus. The flu virus changes its RNA very fast, which makes it difficult to develop an effective vaccine. Having said that lets see if the mRNA vaccine technique which has proven it self against Corona may provide a new way to attack the flu virus
is getting a common cold, all bad?
does it have any benefits, like developing some immunity to similar other viruses ( may be even covid-19)?
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That which does not kill me makes me stronger. Nietzsche.
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43,26,05,567 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1738682 [7/24 ]

46,72,59,775 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741102 [31 JUL 2021 ]

close to 3.5 crore for 7 days
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The recent uptick in vaccination numbers is probably because early folks of 18-44 group who took Covishield are now becoming eligible for their 2nd dose. I don't think there are any shortages of vaccines currently...at least in BLR. Still quite a few people are hesitant to take the jab...with 85% coverage in BLR, I think we are about to hit the wall...perhaps can go another 5%.

Anyways, lets say in another 3-4 months, when newer vaccines arrives (BB's nasal, Biological-E, SII's Novacox, our own mRNA, Pfizer & Moderna), is it possible for fully vaccinated folks to take another shot (assuming vaccines availability won't be an issue any longer)?
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Are you sure about that 85% number? Does it cover everyone > 18 year old or just the 44+? Can you provide a reference?
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A very good day for vaccination -- 31 July

6 million doses administered
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As Suraj predicted by the end of July 2021, India would meet or exceed ALL of Europe in the number of people vaccinated.
India 366.80 million and Europe 365.09 million.
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Isn't that incorrect India - 467 million at the end of July? Or are you comparing people with single doses only?
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470.29 million doses of vaccines administered.
366.80 million 1st doses administered.
103.49 million 2nd doses administered.

The probability of serious illness and hospitalization drops significantly after the 1st dose. ICMR has recommended 28-84 days for interval between 1st and 2nd dose for maximum effectiveness.

In Feb. 2021, after current US government took office, less than 3 weeks in, the Defense Production Act was invoked on vaccine manufacturing materials. It wasn’t until the US was publicly shamed in the press, and through calls by EAM which lifted the ban. The DPA was invoked by the previous US government for certain medications, ventilators and PPE, but not vaccine production critical chemicals.
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Kakkaji wrote:46,72,59,775 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741102 [31 JUL 2021 8:05PM Saturday]
46,06,56,534 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1740863 [30 JUL 2021 8:08PM Friday]

Total for Saturday July 31: 66,03,241 doses

The month of July ends with a bang! More than 13 crore doses were administered this month.

Cumulative First Dose = 36,39,50,377 doses
Cumulative Second Dose = 10,33,09,398 doses
Folks:

There are some new numbers I have calculated:

If, instead of looking at 7pm press releases, that do not capture the vaccination numbers till the end of that day, I looked at the 8am press releases that capture total number of doses at the end of the previous day:

47,02,98,596 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741200 [01 AUG 2021 8AM Sunday]
46,15,18,479 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1740975 [31 JUL 2021 8AM Saturday]

Total for Saturday July 31: 87,80,117 doses

So, the actual number of doses administered on Saturday July 31 was nearly 88 lakhs - close to the record single day vaccination on June 21. :eek:

Wonderful! Hard to believe.

Is there something wrong with my calculation above?
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The numbers I have are from MoHFW as they posted cumulative coverage as of 01 Aug 21 at 7AM IST. That should capture everything upto 31 July 21.
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Mort ji:

The number I have taken from the morning 7am press release is the same as yours (470.29 million)

What you need to look at is the same number from the MOFHW site at 7am on 31 July. That number was 461.15 million.

Hence the difference between 7am Saturday and 7am Sunday is 8.88 million.

Also, with over 47 crore doses administered till the end of July, India has managed to administer 13.5 crore doses in the month of July. It is 1 crore more than originally declared target of 12.5 crore doses. But it could not get to 50 crore doses at the end of July as some media reports were projecting.

The achievement is good for the month of July.

For the month of August, the Health Minister has projected a target of 15.5 crore doses.
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Thanks, Kakkaji.

15.5 crore in August is a laudable goal. There are a few holidays though in August.

Monday 9 August: Muharram
Sunday 15 August: Independence Day
Monday 16 August: Parsi new year
Saturday 21 August: Onam
Sunday 22 August: Raksha Bandhan
Monday 30 August: Janmastmi

There is the usual Sunday slow down, but will become more pronounced with a holiday, then the other holidays will cause slow downs. If I were a betting man, then I would place an upper limit of 14 crore for August. I’m sure MoHFW has taken this into account before forecasting, and the numbers are great, but I hate being overly optimistic.
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In July first and second week they were averaging 3.5m doses/ day. Let us see what the trends are in the first two weeks of August. Right now there are about 3 crore doses in stock with the states.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/0 ... ed-europe/
Oxford: default vaccine of the poorer world !
In January, just hours before the EU regulators approved AstraZeneca for all its adult citizens, President Emmanuel Macron strode to his podium at a specially convened press conference.
He branded the AstraZeneca vaccine as “quasi-ineffective for over-65s”, adding how it “doesn’t work the way we were expecting [it] to”.
It was exactly one year since the UK had left the European Union, and some leaders were struggling to hide their jealousy towards Britain’s national vaccine rollout.

As reporters looked on, Mr Macron could not resist a thinly veiled swipe at the British.
“The goal is not to have the biggest number of first injections,” he said, referring to the UK’s strategy of spacing out the first and second doses to try to maximise the number of people who have one jab and so some degree of immunity.
He added that it was a “lie” to tell people they were vaccinated if they had had a “first dose of a vaccine that is made up of two”.
That day, the European Commission imposed export controls following a row with AstraZeneca over its failure to meet its commitment to deliver doses once the jab was approved for use within the bloc. At the heart of that row were concerns that AstraZeneca was prioritising the UK over the EU.
Members states, it was decreed, could block exports of vaccines made within the union, including the Pfizer/BioNTech injection produced in Belgium.
Germany had already held off administering AstraZeneca to seniors while awaiting proof of its efficacy, forcing it to rely on the more expensive Pfizer vaccine which was in short supply.
Angela Merkel’s first jab in April of AstraZeneca was followed by the Moderna vaccine two months later. Although mixing doses could provide greater protection, it also raised the prospect that one was better than another.
AstraZeneca’s relationship with Europe became further strained after a series of blood clots were reported in those who had had the jab.
Nearly a dozen countries, including Germany, France and Italy, temporarily suspended its use after a study suggested there was a tiny chance it led to blood clots. In some countries it was deemed more dangerous for youngsters.
Despite Mr Macron’s claims about AstraZeneca being less effective among the elderly, in March the French authorities approved its use just for its elderly.
Sitting in a Parisian vaccine centre in April, Dr Milena Wehenkel expressed her frustration about mixed messaging after only 30 or 40 people turned up a day for the jab.
"In December, nobody wanted 'genetically manipulated' vaccines like Pfizer, and now it's the other way round," she said, just as the European Medicines Agency insisted the benefits of protecting against the virus with either jab far outweighed the risks of getting the disease.
"Macron's communication over AstraZeneca has been totally disastrous to the extent that I personally think there were political motives behind it, such as making Britain pay for Brexit or the delay in supplies."
She was one of a number of doctors who blamed “bad press” in France for undermining the country’s vaccine programme.
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That month as the daily death toll in France hit 300, Mr Macron’s warnings and about-turns were blamed for creating a “wave of panic” illustrated by the closure of a large vaccination centre in Nice after only 50 people enrolled to get the jab.
AstraZeneca’s reputation was further dented as many European countries began giving away their shots to the developing world.
By then, the damage was done for a drug meant to be easy to use because it did not require storage in special freezers.
One of the most harrowing scenes emerged when the Malawi health authorities incinerated more than 19,000 expired doses to try to bolster public confidence and reassure the public only safe vaccines would be used.
South Africa had already rejected its Indian-made AstraZeneca, instead giving its doses to neighbouring countries.
Last month’s figures show just 60million vaccine doses had been administered to the 1.3billion living in African countries.
In Australia a radio newsreader posted a video that went viral as he told how the AstraZeneca jab produced in Melbourne could see herd immunity achieved in just five weeks but people were waiting for Pfizer after being worried by the blood clotting claims. The graph below shows the risks of having the Astrazeneca vaccine compared with other potential hazards.

Just last week, new research scotched damning claims AstraZeneca posed a blood clot risk. A team of researchers from Spain, the UK and the Netherlands compared data from more than 1.3million people and concluded that those who had the UK jab developed blood clots at the same rate as those who had the far more expensive Pfizer/BioNTech.
More importantly, they found people who had Covid-19 developed blood clots at a far higher rate than those who received neither vaccine.
Many who created the vaccine would probably accept how in the race to beat Covid, AstraZeneca over-promised on deliveries and failed to adequately explain problems it was encountering with production to the European Union.
While a Chatham House report into how the vaccine became perceived as a second-class option identified the above failings, it also noted how “apparent politicisation” of the jabs led to “public distrust”.
On Thursday it was announced that one billion doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine had been sent to more than 170 countries around the world.
Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, toured the Oxford factory wearing a face mask bearing the Union Jack. He explained how such donations were a “moral” requirement, as well as in the best interest of Britain and the rest of the world.
Dame Sarah hailed it as a “milestone” having worked on the vaccine since January 2020 never knowing if it would even be needed.
On her desk at Oxford’s Jenner Institute is a mug bearing the words: “Keep Calm and Develop Vaccines.”
It is perhaps an indictment upon the international community that a vaccine that has proved pivotal in unlocking Britain has become embroiled in a political controversy, so much so that AstraZeneca has raised doubts now about its future in the vaccine business.
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About Kerala --
Looks like beta = 0.35 is consistent fitting with Model (If lockdown is lifted and common sense masking remains) .. The graph looks something like shown below -- peak of around 25K infections by mid August...
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--- India in general looks pretty good, if things do not go crazy (and no new more contagious variant than beta appears) the third wave is more like a ripple - see my graph.. (https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=2504974#p2504974 <this post>

--- The vaccinations are going as well as expected in this model. If we got some 5-6 Million day as average for August and get 8-10 million per day for September to December India will be in very good place.
(Assuming that people are ready to take the vaccines).
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thehin ... 4.ece/amp/
Significant data on nasal vaccine likely in 2.5 months: Bharat Biotech founder Krishna Ella
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hindus ... 0-amp.html
Covaxin, based on an inactivated virus platform, is widely in use in India’s coronavirus immunisation while the second vaccine, based on an adenovirus vector, is in phase II clinical trials.
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Mort Walker wrote:As Suraj predicted by the end of July 2021, India would meet or exceed ALL of Europe in the number of people vaccinated.
India 366.80 million and Europe 365.09 million.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co ... pean+Union
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Given the size of Indian population and the development of the Indian health care sector. This is a wonderful performance.

Something that I am extremely proud today.

Especially given the dark days from a few months ago. The war is not yet over. We still have a long way to go.

But eventually we will get there.
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Took my 1st doze of Covishield last Thursday. I stay in the suburbs of Bangalore City. I could book an appointment using the Arogya Setu & Cowin portal. Both free & paid slots were clearly displayed. I opted for the paid one. Reached the clinic dot on time. No rush at all. And the nurse gave the vaccine doze in next 5 mins. I paid up and walked out. All done in a span of 10-15 minutes.

KL seems to be having some big issues with vaccine distribution. Lots of complaints on non availability; especially in the free vaccines. Private hospitals seems to be having vaccines in most of the cases. Couple of my friends in KL had to use 'political connections' to get the free vaccines.

Also from what I observed. RSS & Sangh Parivar are now conducting vaccination camps (paid ones). One such a camp was held in my home town, and I knew the organisers in person; all Sanghies. Two weeks back a similar excersise was done in my part of woods in KA, at a school which has a pro-RSS management.
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In large states, I think Karnataka is doing the best in terms of percentage. It's partly due to the Bangalore IT companies vaccinating all its employees and the rest to organisations taking care of their members. KA numbers are increasing only due to mangalore numbers increasing because of the people from Kerala crossing over for hospitals.
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47,22,23,639 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741369 [02 AUG 2021 8AM Monday]
47,02,98,596 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741200 [01 AUG 2021 8AM Sunday]

Total for Sunday August 01: 19,25,043 doses
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47,78,00,587 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741648 [02 AUG 2021 7PM Monday]
47,22,23,639 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741369 [02 AUG 2021 8AM Monday]

Total for Monday August 02 (till 7pm): 55,76,948 doses

The total for Monday August 02 may increase when the final report is available at 8am tomorrow

Cumulative first dose = 37,20,29,032
Cumulative second dose = 10,57,71,555

So, assuming a target adult population of 94.4 crores, India has now fully vaccinated 11% of its population
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Kakkaji wrote:
Kakkaji wrote:46,72,59,775 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741102 [31 JUL 2021 8:05PM Saturday]
46,06,56,534 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1740863 [30 JUL 2021 8:08PM Friday]

Total for Saturday July 31: 66,03,241 doses

The month of July ends with a bang! More than 13 crore doses were administered this month.

Cumulative First Dose = 36,39,50,377 doses
Cumulative Second Dose = 10,33,09,398 doses
Folks:

There are some new numbers I have calculated:

If, instead of looking at 7pm press releases, that do not capture the vaccination numbers till the end of that day, I looked at the 8am press releases that capture total number of doses at the end of the previous day:

47,02,98,596 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741200 [01 AUG 2021 8AM Sunday]
46,15,18,479 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1740975 [31 JUL 2021 8AM Saturday]

Total for Saturday July 31: 87,80,117 doses

So, the actual number of doses administered on Saturday July 31 was nearly 88 lakhs - close to the record single day vaccination on June 21. :eek:

Wonderful! Hard to believe.

Is there something wrong with my calculation above?
I'm getting the same number. I came here to check if someone else figured out what I got wrong. I know that Monday 8am MOHFW report said Sunday was 1.7 million doses - a good number indeed. But now the span between Sat 7pm (467.3 million) and Mon 7pm (477.8 million) means Monday alone was 8.8 million doses done.

If true, it would be the second highest number of doses ever done in a single day since June 21.
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Mort Walker wrote:As Suraj predicted by the end of July 2021, India would meet or exceed ALL of Europe in the number of people vaccinated.
India 366.80 million and Europe 365.09 million.
Number of people with at least one dose, to be precise. I posted it in my latest Twitter weekly update :
https://twitter.com/surajbrf/status/142 ... 04320?s=21
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Much discussion around Kerala model these days.

Here is my take and also thinking of scientists who who are doing Sutra modeling etc.
(The below requires some basic mathematics and scientific thinking -- These are *not* predictions like astrologers but rather - how we are interpreting the current data. Please ignore - if you don't trust these scientist, if you want more details please check other sources too - Good mathematical background on Sutra model is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09158) -
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There are two sides of the debate: using same data of a) low seropositivity and b) high TPR --to argue opposite points!
One side says: - low seropositivity demonstrate success of containment strategy.
-(and) high TPR show that smart testing is being done.
Other side says: -low seropositivity mean there is much larger susceptible population that other states which means pandemic has still a long way to run there,
and high TPR indicates that infection is spreading significantly.

Both are true, but, only partially.

The plot below is the entire timeline for Kerala showing how
the values of reach and contact rate parameters have changed to influence the trajectory.
(The values are reasonably precise thanks to calibration via serosurvey)
Image

Last year, until August-end, reach in Kerala was a mere 3%. This demonstrates success of containment strategy adopted by the state -- the pandemic could not even reach 97% of population! In September, reach jumped to 11% due to onset of festival season. It jumped again to 21% in October-end, but the cases did not rise due to reduction in contact rate. Both the parameters increased slowly over next four months resulting in almost flat trajectory that eventually came down in February.

And then delta-variant struck!
This resulted in sharp increases in both reach and contact rate. Reach is now nearly 94%
thanks to another sharp rise during mid-June to mid-July.

The containment strategy adopted by the state was a success until February. It managed to keep most of the
population away from the pandemic. However, with onset of delta-variant, the strategy has not worked well
resulting in spread of pandemic everywhere.

With seropositivity around 52% at present and pandemic spread over nearly entire population, there is a long way
to go before herd immunity is reached. There are now two options available: keep contact rate low through
lockdowns, or allow it to increase further by opening up.

As posted in earlier post : if contact rate is brought down from its current value of 0.33, the numbers will start reducing, however, herd immunity will not be reached and lockdown will have to be kept until a large fraction is vaccinated. (See graph in earlier post)

If strict lockdown is lifted and basic rules are enforced like wearing masks, avoiding crowding etc, the contact rate should settle down around 0.35. The resulting trajectory was shown in my previous post - it shows a peak of around 25K infections by mid August. By September, seropositivity would be 75% and then even without any precautions cases will not rise.

This is why, some of the scientists are recommending lifting of the strict lock-down in Kerala.
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Suraj wrote: I'm getting the same number. I came here to check if someone else figured out what I got wrong. I know that Monday 8am MOHFW report said Sunday was 1.7 million doses - a good number indeed. But now the span between Sat 7pm (467.3 million) and Mon 7pm (477.8 million) means Monday alone was 8.8 million doses done.

If true, it would be the second highest number of doses ever done in a single day since June 21.
Suraj San:

I am confused.

It is not Monday August 02 (final numbers will be out Tuesday morning), but Saturday July 31 which had 8.8m doses administered.

I have shown all the calculations in my posts above.
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Kakkaji: here are all the last three 7pm IST reports on PIB:
Day 199 (Mon 2 Aug): 477.8m https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetai ... ID=1741648
Day 197 (Sat 31 Jul): 467.3m https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetai ... ID=1741102
Day 196 (Fri 30 Jul): 460.7m https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetai ... ID=1740863

PIB doesn't do a 7pm report on Sunday, but MOHFW reports Sunday figures on Monday morning, which is what I used. So the data I have here is:
Saturday: 6603241
Sunday: 1700000 (just plugged in a round number)
Monday: 8840812 (delta between days 197-199, minus 1.7m)

I find this calculation sufficient, and by choosing Saturday as the last weekday, I can generally tabulate data accurately for a full week and month.
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What numbers do you get if you plug in the morning 8am report for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday?

The morning 8am report is available every day including Sunday. Perhaps we should use that report instead of the 7pm report going forward?

Thanks
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