India may have an overall low vax rate but with a population of 1.4 billion a 7% vax rate means around a hundred million people are vaccinated . They must know how the vaccines are doing.
I was 13 at the time and it was the first early dismissal I can remember. Also my uncle was plowing snow on Boston at the time and had to dump some of it in our driveway. We made a snow fort out of it and it lasted two or three weeks.