Some places look ~80+% might have been infected. If that’s the case the age pyramid is pretty much it. If % infected is much lower than the severity & death rate is dramatically worse here, again because of that age pyramid. Alternatively excess death rates are *really* wrong.
Even an explanation that includes excess deaths being wildly off is worrying, because that calls into question the entire death recording system and how reliable any of the numbers for the region are at all
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Yeah. That is true, but I feel like that’s the least worst option, that they’re actually lower. That said, I think, well, fear, they’re actually reliable. Plus similarish states but with slightly higher median age are reporting slightly higher rates of death—so consistent. Ugh.
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Yes, it's very worrying. There's also some consistency in the excess disparity - the wealthier the area (i.e. Delhi) the less disparity there appears to be between excess and reported deaths, which is consistent with an undercount caused by less developed systems
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