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Ashish Kulkarni

India’s new vaccine policy makes welcome improvements – but big questions still remain

How will the country procure the approximately 2 billion necessary to vaccinate all Indians above 18?

Ashish Kulkarni
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Murali Neelakantan
· Jun 11, 2021 · 07:30 am
Is any other country in the world using the fragmented, half-private vaccination model India chose?

If there is no precedence, then what is the underlying model that proves that this approach is better?

Murali Neelakantan
&
Ashish Kulkarni
· May 14, 2021 · 08:00 am
India’s plan to fragment the vaccine market across the states is mind-bogglingly bad economics

Vaccine manufacturers will now be able to play off one Indian state against the other. The rich will get their vaccines, at the cost of the poor.

Ashish Kulkarni
&
Murali Neelakantan
· Apr 21, 2021 · 07:30 am