In this session of The Conversation Series, Chandrika Bahadur, Director, SDG Academy, Vice President of Education, UN SDSN, Chair, The Lancet Covid-19 Commission India Task Force, and Professor Jeemol Unni, Professor of Economics, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, discuss containment choices beyond binaries, including medical preparedness, physical distancing, accelerated vaccinations, scaled-up testing, closure of indoor spaces, contact tracing and isolation, and beyond. They also discuss why real-time, reliable, credible data is essential for a comprehensive strategy to defeat the pandemic.