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17 May, 3 tweets, 3 min read
“The ratio of vaccine availibility to the number of candidates is 1:230”: Ram Sevak Sharma, the man in charge of the loaded CoWin platform, puts a neat number to the “world’s vaccination drive” that isn’t. @businessline @rssharma3
“CoWin is like the train ‘tatkal’ system but worse because there at least you know when the system will open”: digital rights activist Kiran Jonnalagadda on a platform that is stacked in favour of a super-exclusive layer, “not rich people but techies”. @jackerhack @timesofindia
230 people are chasing every single dose of COVID vaccine available in India, because someone forgot to place an order. Meanwhile, some countries have over-ordered: Canada has enough doses to vaccinate its population 5 times. Even Africa is doing better than us. @BBC #VishwaGuru

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