Unfortunately, there are plenty of antivaxxers in India, especially in the upper middle classes who copy talking points from crunchy western folks. Its not as high as that in, say, California but it is a non negligible fraction.

I have never seen anti-vaxxers in the majority of the population.

Credit goes to successive governments from various parties, who have largely not politicized the issue.

It also helps that the previous and current generation have seen the effects of non-vaccination, like polio afflicted ones.

In general, the population goes by the word of the medical establishment and there are no nonsensical opposing voices.

What is happening in USA is puzzling to me. Just goes to show that you can have all the wealth, infrastructure, research and qualified personnel in the world and still be beholden to crackpot ideas and conspiracy theories.

While this is true about people who follow Ayurveda,

Many people thought covid was not a big deal from because how easy the first wave went through. The vaccine slots were mostly free till a month back when the crunch started.

It was not a easy first wave. The cases were rising very fast from june till october. Then suddenly it came down. It did not go up during following festivals nor during winter. I don't think there has been put forward a very good explanation on why the cases went down. Now in peak summer it going up though way more rapidly than before. Question would be will it come down like before without much understanding of why it went up or down.