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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCOVID death toll in India: THREE MILLION
per NYT :
In a comprehensive examination of the true toll of the pandemic in the sprawling nation of 1.4 billion, the Center for Global Development, a Washington research institute, attempted to quantify excess deaths from all causes during the pandemic based on state data, international estimates, serological studies and household surveys.
True deaths are likely to be in the several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably Indias worst human tragedy, said its authors, one of whom is a former chief economic adviser to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The official government numbers have been called into question repeatedly. Even as funeral pyres lit up the night sky and bodies washed up on the Ganges River, with death all around, the Indian government was widely underreporting the scale of the devastation.
A chorus of experts have said the countrys official estimates are a gross understatement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/world/asia/india-covid-pandemic-excess-deaths.html
I wonder what the truth death toll is here?
Probably at least 1,000,000.
hlthe2b
(102,352 posts)Initech
(100,100 posts)Chicken shit governors and world leaders are too scared to report the truth. And former president Dumbfuck Turdburglar did nothing to combat the severity of what was coming, and his lackeys likely forged the numbers to make it look good in his favor.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Dead people arent as easy to hide.
I expect studies to address this and revise our numbers upwards.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Bodies were buried on the river bank.
Lots of bodies.
I was watching TV news from India.
The real death count is high.
ProfessorGAC
(65,163 posts)...doing mass pyres. On multiple days.
The exact number of those deceased will probably never be accurately counted.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Damn
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,163 posts)Anything that makes that tool squirm is a positive.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)I also suspect the death toll in China is well above what the officially acknowledge. The Chinese government is simply a whole lot better at controlling news and information.