April 26, 2021
India's COVID-19 Crisis
What can be done to help India mitigate the virus?
Shruti Rajagopalan
Senior Research Fellow, Indian Political Economy and Emergent Ventures India
Daniel M. Rothschild
Executive Director
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.India's COVID-19 cases have been rising at an alarmingly rapid rate since mid-March, and the virus is now killing thousands of people each day in India.
Dan Rothschild, Executive Director here at Mercatus, talks to Shruti Rajagopalan, Senior Research Fellow and leader of Indian political economy research and Emergent Ventures India at Mercatus, about the rising COVID-19 cases in India, if lockdowns are the answer to halting India's rising cases, India's vaccine distribution, their hospital capacity, and how the United States can help one of their allies during this crisis.
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