Rob Wiblin

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?

Yeah.

Who are the big players who are trying to fix this problem?

I'm guessing kind of, you know, Indian government, lots of other major foundations and things like that.

Okay.

So yeah, have we been making a lot of progress on the vaccination issue?

Yeah, I think, yeah, I looked this one up on Our World in Data because I was curious to know how things were going.

And it seems like we've been making massive progress.

So even just in, okay, so in the seven years from 2010 to 2017, I think we went from 2.8 million people dying from vaccine preventable diseases down to 1.7, just like a one third drop in seven years.