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Rob Wiblin

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80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So it seems like we're kind of killing it.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So that's probably COVID, right?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

People being stuck at home and was it more than that?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So you're saying like a much larger fraction of kids are getting the first dose, but then it drops off.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

I guess, well, it suggests that the parents don't object to vaccines.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

You might think, oh, it's like it's anti-vaxxers who aren't getting their kids, because I suppose that's what we're more familiar with in the UK or in the US.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

But in India, it's more just that life's very busy or it's like more difficult.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

You've got to go to a specific place at a specific time to get the kids the vaccines.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

What's the practical situation?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So is it possible to go out and just survey Indian parents and find out, at least among those who didn't bring their kids in for the later vaccinations, what's the deal?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

What was the reason that they didn't do it?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So it seems like there's other countries at a similar income level that are managing to reach a larger fraction of kids with these later stage vaccinations.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So is something perhaps going wrong with the state level health department's approaches to vaccinations in India?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Is there something peculiar about the India situation that's making this a bigger issue?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, interesting.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Okay, let's push on and discuss the organization that you've made to try to try to fix this issue in India.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

I guess in a nutshell, what does Savita do to try to get more more jabs in arms?