Indiaâs official count of 390,000 deaths from Covid may actually be a massive undercount, said several public health experts, according to a June 27 report in The Wall Street Journal.
The University of Washingtonâs Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation modeling suggests the true Covid-19 death toll in India exceeds 1.1 million, close to three times the reported number.
An accurate count of Covid-19 infections and deaths is âa very important part of understanding how big a threat new variants are,â said Christopher Murray, director of the Washingtonâs Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
India has detected only about 3 to 5 percent of all infections due to insufficient testing, said Murray.
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by Tyler Durden
Monday, Jun 28, 2021 - 11:50 PM
With nearly 400K COVID-19 deaths, India has the world s third-highest coronavirus death toll, following the US (in first place with more than 600K+) and Brazil (coming in second with 510K+). For months now, we have been reporting on commentary from analysts and public health experts speculating that India s total COVID deaths might be 2x the official number. Some journalists have even found evidence of deaths that weren t included in the official tally.
On Monday, a story published by WSJ cited modeling from the University of Washington s IHME institute, the not-very-accurate purveyor of COVID-19 forecasting, which suggests that India s COVID-19 death toll might be as high as 1.1MM. This would mean that the wave of infections that spread across India in April and May (largely driven by the Delta variant) may have been the deadliest outbreak yet.
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India has officially recorded more than 3,90,000 coronavirus deaths, but families who have lost loved ones, health experts and statisticians say that vastly undercounts the true toll, Wall Street Journal reported.According to statisticians, the .