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<p style="text-align:justify">Mukherjee: Our models predict a very high number of infections in India&hellip;. This is assuming 50 per cent people with at least one vaccine or a past infection can get re-infected by omicron. But fatalities are expected to be 30 to 50 per cent of the second wave if we use severity estimates from South Africa.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">India has an advantage that many people have two vaccines plus a past infection. Our estimate is nearly 40 per cent. This implies that even without boosters, this subgroup may do well in terms of disease outcome if they get reinfected. The vaccines should keep them out of hospitals. But these expectations are based on several assumptions, which may or may not hold up in India.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">But severity and mortality estimates for India are difficult to extrapolate because we don&rsquo;t have accurate hospitalisation data or even mortality data. As we see in the US, excess mortality is induced by not just the virulence of omicron or delta but the chaotic collapse of health care and essential services.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">With different levels of immunity backdrop across geography and populations, each country is somewhat different but case counts are all that we have right now for India at a national level.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/india-is-in-a-covid-sandstorm-expert/cid/1846564">click here</a> to read more.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: The Telegraph</strong></p>
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Bhramar Mukherjee, professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan, interviewed by GS Mudur (The Telegraph)

-The Telegraph The country has an advantage that many people have two vaccines plus a past infection: Expert Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan who has been tracking India’s Covid-19 epidemic for nearly two years, is now visiting her parents’ farmhouse in Ruppur near Santiniketan in Birbhum. “This is our escape and solace in the epidemic,” she said. In this interview, Mukherjee tells The Telegraph what she expects during the omicron-driven wave, how data gaps have compromised India’s capacity to respond to Covid-19 and that the country is already in a “sandstorm”. Q: What are your expectations from the omicron-driven wave in India? Mukherjee: Our models predict a very high number of infections in India…. This is assuming 50 per cent people with at least one vaccine or a past infection can get re-infected by omicron. But fatalities are expected to be 30 to 50 per cent of the second wave if we use severity estimates from South Africa. India has an advantage that many people have two vaccines plus a past infection. Our estimate is nearly 40 per cent. This implies that even without boosters, this subgroup may do well in terms of disease outcome if they get reinfected. The vaccines should keep them out of hospitals. But these expectations are based on several assumptions, which may or may not hold up in India. But severity and mortality estimates for India are difficult to extrapolate because we don’t have accurate hospitalisation data or even mortality data. As we see in the US, excess mortality is induced by not just the virulence of omicron or delta but the chaotic collapse of health care and essential services. With different levels of immunity backdrop across geography and populations, each country is somewhat different but case counts are all that we have right now for India at a national level. Please click here to read more. Image Courtesy: The Telegraph