COVID-19 Death Toll in India May Top 4 Millionhttps://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/07/20/covid-19-death-toll-in-india-may-top-4-million-n1463303On Tuesday, the Center for Global Development released a chilling report suggesting that the COVID-19 death toll may in India may total more than 4 million from January 2020 to June 2021. Analysts cited the country’s population density and third-world health care system as the primary contributing factors to this horrific death toll.
The staggering estimated toll far exceeds the “official” death toll of 414,000 and could be an order of magnitude higher — 10 times the official number.
Analysts measured excess deaths — the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected. It found 3 million to 4.7 million excess deaths.
When applied to countries with reasonably robust healthcare systems, this "excess deaths" method is flawed, because it fails to take into account deaths due to deferred medical procedures, people failing/hesitating to get medical attention when necessary, and people not having tests done that would have found treatable disease. In the case of the US, it also fails to take into account significantly increased street drug OD deaths and Ferguson-Effect and
De-Fund-the-Police increases in murder.
With India's thoroughly inadequate healthcare system, the method might have results that are in the ballpark. I'm sure India is not the only country with a healthcare system unable to gather Covid deaths stats.
