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4 Sep, 12 tweets, 6 min read
Updating for 1st week of Sept, with the risk of sounding like a broken record:

* This week overtook last week as the best week ever.
* First ever instance of >50 million in a week, finishing with 53.6M

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Updating the bucket chart of daily number classification shows just how much the recent performance has accelerated, with multiple >10M days interspersed between >6M days.

All data is at intervals between PIB 7pm data.

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I’ve summarized the month of August itself separately and written an article about it:



Three months of successively outdoing projections culminated in a record 185m doses in August, vs 150m projected.

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The following chart reports monthly vaccination dose performance so far. A mere 4 days in, September already has almost 33 million doses, enough to vaccinate the eligible population of Canada, or Aus+NZ combined.

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I had stopped showing vaccine availability with states data as it was briefly stopped being reported.

Tl;dr - It has now resumed and the trend is again visible.

The float is higher now, but 45-50m is reasonable given it is less than a weeks inventory now:

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Let’s step back and look at how vaccination coverage numbers look vs major regions .

Half a billion people (well past 50%) adults with at least a dose, adding ~1% a day peak rate.

Note the slope of various entities as it matters in subsequent posts on this thread.

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The 7DMA data now looks a little comical, with the Indian rate exceeding combined rates of others, whose combined population exceeds India’s.

As a result, Indian rate per person also exceeds them. The “but we have more people” argument doesn’t quite work well now.

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In my article on @SwarajyaMag summarizing August, I described the pronounced acceleration in Indian supply vs EU/US.

Vaccine prod faces scaling problems. @SerumInstIndia struggled earlier and @BharatBiotech is working hard now. They need support, not backseat criticism.

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This is the prior quarter (June-August) performance vs Europe and North America.

Europe = entire continent incl UK, not merely EU
NA = US + CA + Mex

From almost matching Europe, to exceeding 2 continents combined, in 3 months. That is the acceleration seen from India.

9/
Many artifacts are visible in the previous picture:
1. Dramatic growth in supply and daily vaccination in India
2. Moderation in the west - both production and consumption.

A simple explanation is ‘well they’re almost done, we have a long way to go’. Let us examine:

10/
Projections come with caveats:
* previous table doesn’t count booster doses etc.
* simply projects forward September vaccination rate estimates.
In short, disclaimers apply.

Bottomline: Indian completion timeline currently aligns with western ones.

11/
For September, known data are:
52-55m doses carried over from Aug
200m SII est
35m BB est

Thats ~250M doses + float. Month-end total ~900M.

The estimated 100M second doses will take fully vaccinated pop over 250M.

Congrats @PMOIndia @MoHFW_INDIA and the producers!

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More from @surajbrf

28 Aug
A very simple summary of August 4th week:

Best. Week. Ever.

49.2 million vaccinations between Aug 22-28.

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It included the first instance of a day of >10 million vaccinations, in a week where the worst weekday was 5.6 million. This new chart reports daily number for the past 3 months broken into buckets:

2/ Image
This new chart was necessitated by the fact that every day is now over 5m. 4 weeks of August are:
19 days >5m
5 days of 4-5m
4 Sundays

The data above 5m is so frequent and varied that it does not work as a single bucket anymore.

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Read 10 tweets
8 Aug
This thread overviews the extraordinary performance of @Neeraj_chopra1 at Tokyo 2020 in the men’s javelin throw event - the statistics & history involved.

It describes the pathbreaking nature of the achievement, with regard to both Neeraj’s own and continental performance.

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No Asian has ever won the men’s javelin gold before. The event has been the preserve of east/central Europeans built like tanks. Neeraj is only the second non-white to win it after Kershorn Walcott. In fact the magnitude of the achievement is even greater…

2/
No Asian has ever even medaled in Olympic javelin throw before. The Finns and other Nordics monopolize it, with Germany, USSR and Hungary making up most of the rest. They also own all the best javelin brands, covered later. But that’s not all…

3/
Read 15 tweets
26 Jun
Updating this for June Week 4.

The only way to describe this week is OFF THE CHARTS.

Forget all the encouraging steady rise numbers so far. This week blew them away, doubling the 7DMA in a week to begin with:

1/
Each of the last 8 days - from Sat Jun 19 to Sat Jun 26 - were all time best days of week for vaccinations, with 26th overtaking the perf on 18th. The past week dominates the list of best ever single days for vaccinations:

2/
June Week 4 was by a long distance the best ever week, with almost 45 million vaccinations done, exceeding the populations of many countries:

3/
Read 7 tweets
23 Jun
Well, let’s look at the best performing Sun, Mon and Tue for vaccination since start of April when >45 was allowed then.

Oops. The best ever Sunday was June 20. The best ever Monday was June 21. The best ever Tuesday was June 22.

1/
Maybe the ‘hoarding’ began Saturday then ? Oops no, Saturday June 19 was the best ever Saturday.

Must be Friday ? Nope, June 18 was the 4th best but very close to the top, and Fridays in June take up 3 of top 4.

2/
So did the trickery begin earlier ? Nope. Three full weeks of June occupy spots 2, 3 and 5 of top 5 best performing weeks along with the 2 April peak. Three days in , the current week is already on track to make the top 5 easily, if not become the all time best week.

3/
Read 6 tweets
20 Jun
Updating as a new vaccination data thread for June Week 3.

1. Mon to Sat saw >3m doses everyday.

2. Mon and Sat each had >4 million.

3. The past 11 days have seen >3m/day trailing 7DMA - almost matching 12 consecutive days in April. Current 7DMA is 3.34m/day.

1/
With consistently rising consumption, the extrapolation of production based on weekly consumption has also risen to 117m/month rate now.

This is close to the higher end forecast of 120m/mo rate projected for June, with one more week to go, and almost 2x early May rate.

2/
Nit: earlier image should say Wk 3 for last bar.

The rate of increase from Wk2 wasn’t as high as prior weeks, but a month long acceleration is clear - already twice as long as the April surge in vaccinations, with supplies still increasing.

3/
Read 6 tweets
9 Jun
This thread updates Indian vaccine order data as of June 8 2021.

First an overview of all orders by the central government paid for or advance made. Current cumulative total is 1055.5 million doses ordered.

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General observation: Mar/Apr/May orders are approx 6 weeks apart. This offers insight into production rate.

SII: 100m doses at 6 week cadence, translates to 67m/month rate in March (100/6*4)

Next order is 110m order 6 weeks later, implying 73m/month production rate April.

2/
The June order of 250m doses is harder to parse, but if production rate is 100m/month, it means next SII order will be ~10 weeks from now.

So the order cadence here aligns closely with stated SII production rate estimates for the same months.

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