COVID has been almost extinguished in Delhi. Reported positivity rate of 0.06%. I wish that Canadian or US public health authorities would check it out so that we could know whether data from Delhi is fake or whether they are on to something. 
2/ while ivermectin stans are always click to triumph for ivermectin, there's another possibility: maybe their "old-fashioned" vaccines are working better against variants, esp Delta, than Pfizer mRNA which (AIUI) is very specific to one virus feature.
3/ eight months ago, most authorities thought that, when we got to 70% vaccinations, R0 would be well below 1 and cases would then recede quite rapidly. As someone who works with data, I include myself among those who expected this based on seemingly well understood principles
4/ this seems to have happened in Delhi and some other parts of India (if data is even approximately representative), but it hasn't happened in jurisdictions using Pfizer. Is it possible that vaccines in use in India are out-performing Pfizer in regard to Delta and/or are
5/ and/or are holding their protection better than Pfizer. I don't pretend to have any expert insight on these issues, but I really wish that our public health community would go to India and fact-find, and less time lecturing us on equity and inclusion.
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