The Week — November 9, 2021. “I expect a lot of the 103 million people that missed appointments were driven by fear to get their first dose because a lot of Indians were dying at the time, it was during the second wave. We aren’t seeing people rushing to get the vaccine like they did before as the number of cases and deaths has dropped.” Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the New Delhi-based Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy.