India's Deaths During COVID-19 Pandemic 10 Times Official Toll, Study Says

[Nevilledog]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-as-virus-outbreak-india-deaths_n_60f6b07de4b0ddf009781d8f

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research yet on the ravages of the virus in the south Asian country.

Most experts believe India’s official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount, but the government has dismissed those concerns as exaggerated and misleading.

The report released Tuesday estimated excess deaths — the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected — to be between 3 million to 4.7 million between January 2020 and June 2021. It said an accurate figure may “prove elusive” but the true death toll “is likely to be an order of magnitude greater than the official count.”

The report, published by Arvind Subramanian, the Indian government’s former chief economic adviser, and two other researchers at the Center for Global Development and Harvard University, said the count could have missed deaths occurring in overwhelmed hospitals or while health care was delayed or disrupted, especially during the devastating peak surge earlier this year.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. That sucks...

[SheltieLover]

2. ...

[ProfessorGAC]

3. That's Been My Concern The Whole Time

There's proof it took them a full year to get to a point where their daily case load was remotely close to reality.
For a country that populated and that congested, their numbers didn't really make sense.
And, since Modi is not trustworthy, the Indian government denials are valueless.

[malaise]

4. Hope the MIGAts for Modi wake up and soon

That is all