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COVID vaccine strategy - A sure recepie for failure

 Let me cut short the pleasantries not so required introductions and jump straight to point. COVID-19 had its dream run in 2020 and the second wave in 2021 has made its 2020 run pale in comparison. India has a population of 135 cr out of which we need to vaccinate around 60-70% to ensure that the impact of the dreaded pandemic is subdued. Now that the vaccines are not tested or invented for children below 18 who constitute 40% of our population[ censusofindia ], we are left with little choice but to inoculate the entire eligible population. This number at official figures would be in tune of 80 Cr. at 2 vaccines per person, we are looking at 160cr or 1.6billion doses of vaccine. Add wastage at 5% or less to the number we are looking at around 170 cr or 1.7 billion doses. But where are so many doses? There is a parallel killer in the town. That killer is poverty. Everytime, we have a lockdown there is a bigger risk of people losing livelihood. The result is the ability of people to ...

AYUSH: Promoting what?

AYUSH- is a department under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. This acronym stands for Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. In short it this department deals with all the popular medical systems that are less popular than the Allopathic or western or modern medical system. Now why there is a separate department for these set of medical systems? These systems do not share anything in common other than that they are Medical systems which have been scientifically documented and traditionally practiced over a long period of time and that they are less popular than the Allopathic medical system. Otherwise, they are essentially different from each other. The DNA of these systems itself is different. How you can club Ayurveda with homeopathy where the former relies of the medicinal properties of plants and herbs, the later works on esoteric principles of "Memory of Solvents" (at least esoteric to other systems of medicine).So...