Episode 35: An Update on the COVID Situation in India

To provide an update on the COVID spike and response in India over the past 6 weeks since Chadi’s previous episode, Aju Mathew (@ajumathew_), MD, oncologist practicing in southern India, joins the show. Dr. Mathew begins by describing the tradeoffs of moving home to practice in India while leaving his academic career behind in the US, offers critical remarks on India’s government use of resources to combat COVID up to and during the “tsunami,” shares how vaccine hesitancy around the world bled into India’s population, provides a status on the current vaccine and resource availability in the country as well as the percentage of the population vaccinated, and plenty more.