Blame it on the circumstances. Bad timing. Or, just poorly-planned policy. Delhi-based journalist-author Ziya Us Salam says these, among other factors, have led to his wife not taking the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. “She got her first shot of Covaxin on April 13. Within a week, she contracted COVID-19. Surprisingly, all the tests that we conducted came back negative. But she was showing most of the symptoms, including high fever and loss of taste. Even her lungs were affected badly,” he remembers. By the time her condition improved, she was already eligible for the next dose. “But there was no clarity from the government about when COVID-infected patients should be taking the next dose. They were changing their stance often. Initially, it was four weeks after testing negative. A few days later, they changed it to six weeks. Scientists and researchers were also divided on this.”