Just saw something amazingly bad about COVID death numbers in India...
I saw it on reddit, here's the link...
https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/05/14/123-lakh-death-certificates-issued-in-71-days-gujarat-daily-has-an-eye-opening-front-page-story/
I've got no idea how reputable (or not) the journalist or newspaper are, though.
I'll summarize to save you a click.
Looking at just one state (Gujarat), from March 1 to May 10 of this year 123,000 death certificates were issued. During the same time period last year the number of death certificates was 58,000. So that's 65,000 excess deaths in that state over that 71 days. But the official COVID death toll as reported by the state for that time period was 4,200. 65,000 versus 4,200....
The US had our own undercounting problem (compared to excess deaths) especially early on when testing was a problem, but that was on the scale of under-shooting by 20 or 25 percent. This is a whole different scale of undercounting -- well over an order of magnitude.
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