Interesting new paper from @giridar100 arguing that India's COVID-19 undercount was *always* likely because of systematic issues with death reporting
Estimates that the true death toll in India is likely to be 5.5-11x higherhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.641991/full …
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For context, the current death toll in India is 430,000, this would mean 2.37-4.74million deaths, which is in line with other esimates It would also increase the WORLDWIDE toll from COVID-19 by 40-80% (!)
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Has starvation been considered as a contributing factor to all the excess deaths?
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