Health experts have expressed their deep concerns over recent editorials in British medical journal The Lancet lambasting the Indian government and the states on their handling of the second wave of Covid-19.
 
Lancet said the Centre’s assertion that India was in the endgame of the pandemic came despite warnings of more waves and threats of new strains and mutation. It said the state governments scaled back the healthcare arrangements made after the first wave ebbed.

“The Lance editorial of May 7 said India could witness 1 million Covid-19 related deaths between now and August 1. It quoted the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent global health research organization in the US, without giving any details of the mathematical model used for these alarming figures, or the basic assumptions of the Indian figures applied in the model. Instead, the editorial jumped on to say ‘India squandered its early successes in controlling Covid-19’. Until April 2021, the government's Covid-19 taskforce had not met in months,” said a surprised Dr Subhash Hira, Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington-Seattle.