A data-driven path to vaccine equity

The relative weightage of economic activities and mortality may be a serious issue, which the policymakers should decide and the model can be rebuilt based on the country's perspective

One of my acquaintances, a professor at the University of Florida, was reasonably excited when she received the Covid vaccine shot offered by the University fairly quickly. Every country, however, needs its own plan for procurement, distribution and prioritisation for vaccination according to its socio-economic and demographic structure. This is undoubtedly an unprecedented scale of vaccination in India — much more extensive than the Polio vaccination drive to which we are accustomed. “It will be 2024 till everybody gets vaccinated,” experts believe. Even if the procedure is expedited and multiple vaccines are available, the vaccination procedure would take quite some