Rob Wiblin

Yeah, yeah.

And I guess, so you're saying a child dies every minute, so that's where you get kind of the 1.7 or 1.8 million people dying a year.

Are there harms other than death?

I'm guessing getting lots of these diseases might have long-term health consequences for people who are, you know, babies that even survive.

Yeah, I mean, I think the cost benefit analysis on vaccines almost always shows these wild ratios between the benefit and the cost.

And I guess the main questions that I've seen asked are like, well, how do we get more people to actually get these vaccines?

Because I guess all of the really low hanging fruit has been taken.

So where it's straightforward to get vaccines to kids, a lot of work has been done to do that.

But then the ones that are left, it's a little bit more challenging.

There's something making it hard.

So you see, I guess, what are the main countries where kids aren't getting vaccinated?

It's a little bit surprising that India accounts for such a large fraction, because I think of, you know, India is not a rich country, but it's not one of the poorest or one of the least functional countries in the world.

It seems like it's kind of punching above its weight in terms of under-vaccination, perhaps, relative to what people might expect.

Yeah, I guess that is one reason why you might think that there's more low-hanging fruit in India.

And perhaps one reason why you're focusing on India is that I imagine there's many children going under-vaccinated or maybe very under-vaccinated in war-torn areas or places, very remote areas where it's very hard to get people in.

And yet there's an enormous number of children out there who you probably could access relatively easily.

And it's a question of getting the parents motivated to go and get the vaccinations.

Yeah.

So yeah, just to be concrete, what kind of diseases are we talking about?

What are the main kind of vaccine preventable diseases that end up killing people?