LETTERS

Inoculating India

uch of the criticism Murzban F. Shroff levels against Narendra Modi’s handling of the Covid crisis in India (Letter from Mumbai, Autumn 2021) is well justified. His reference to India’s vaccine preparation, however, is highly misleading. Although the government had ordered only 16 million doses of the vaccine by January 2021, it was fully cognizant of the enormous capacity within the country to both manufacture and administer vaccines. By mid-September, more than 750 million doses had been administered by the government free of cost—double