Covid-19 - When Will The Nightmare End?

Top experts weigh in on india’s best hopes to halt the rampaging second wave of covid-19

- Raj Chengappa

When Bhramar Mukherjee, an Indian American professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan, noticed an uptick in new cases of Covid-19 being reported in Maharashtra on February 27 this year, she instinctively knew that a fresh wave was going to hit India. Mukherjee tweeted that India should scale up its vaccine rollout and citizens should start double masking and avoid large gatherings. She then dialed her aging parents in Kolkata and urged them to get vaccinated. Her parents didn’t listen to her and neither, apparently, did Indian policymakers, who prematurely declared victory over the virus after the first wave of infection subsided in November 2020.