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Dude, Where is My Vaccine?

It is sad to see commentators write about things they are clueless about – which is much like YoYo Honey Singh trying to teach M.S. Subbulakshmi how to sing Venkateshwara Subrabatham. Vaccination is one such thing where people with kindergarten knowledge are preaching the treatise! Vaccinating a billion people is a tough challenge and India with its EVin (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network) has the basic infrastructure in place to do it, yet we are stumbling. Not because of the absence of good intent or good policy design by the Government of India (GoI), but due to politics and its sad consequences.

a monopsonist, or a sole buyer, can easily aggregate demand and drive down vaccine prices.

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