[LordAtlas]

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/

[blntechie]

At 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.

[bayesian_horse]

Still 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...

[OJFord]

Well, 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]

You 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.

[kumarvvr]

India's population is 1.3 Billion.

26.16% of that are children. (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]

> 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]

If a billion people need two doses, that's two billion doses. One billion is halfway there, leaving one billion left.

[quietbritishjim]

The 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.

[sameerds]

It 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.

[NilayK]

290 million fully vaccinated and 1,390 million total population. :) [1 crore = 10 million]

[sampo]

3rd 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]

> 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

[blntechie]

Deleting as duplicate.