Path to normalcy via herd immunity

The need of the hour is the release of data on seroprevalence, created through scientific surveys in each city, every week

Normalisation of the economy requires consumers returning to traditional behaviour on discretionary expenditures. While we are all excited about vaccines, a strong impact of vaccines is some distance away. The more proximate source of normalisation in the coming six months is herd immunity. Better data holds the key to modified behaviour by individuals. Alongside this, greater wisdom in public health measures will help.

Many things are starting to look more normal in terms of the economy. As an example, the employment rate as seen in the CMIE household survey was at about 37 per cent in urban India at the start