The “What-Ifs” of India’s COVID-19 response

Published on SoftPower Magazine | Harsh Parikh and Kumar Subham

As historians prepare to add new chapters in history textbooks across the world, different countries will end up on different points on the spectrum — from bad to worse — of how they were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the spreading of the disease is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’, its intensity is often highly correlated to how promptly and actively the governments respond to the crisis. If the infection spreads exponentially fast and overwhelms the healthcare system of a country, then the death toll would also be voluminous. Hence, all efforts across the world are to ‘flatten the curve’ and gain more time and resources in the fight against the pandemic. In this article, we analyze India’s response to the pandemic and use data to understand the efficacy of the measures taken by the government.

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