: How many excess deaths in India were because of Covid-19? It’s difficult to say #IndiaNEWS Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu saw over 4,60,000 excess deaths in the first

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How many excess deaths in India were because of Covid-19? It’s difficult to say #IndiaNEWS
Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu saw over 4,60,000 excess deaths in the first five months of 2021, compared to a typical year. Yet the official Covid-19 death toll for these states in this period, which covers the peak second-wave months of the pandemic in India, accounts for just 6% of these excess deaths. How many of the remaining 94% are “missed� Covid-19 deaths will be central to the debate over how well or poorly India handled the pandemic, but will not be easy to disentangle.By the time India’s first wave had receded, there was already reason to be sceptical about the numbers. For one, multiple states had admitted that they were using a stringent definition of a Covid-19 death. Only deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19, and had died soon after in hospital with a typical progression of disease, were being counted as Covid-19 deaths.This despite the fact that India’s official Indian Council of Medical Research guidelines included a World Health Organization code for recording suspected Covid-19 deaths: deaths of people with the symptoms, but who had not necessarily tested positive prior to death. Through the last year, no state has included a suspected Covid-19 death in its published data. “Including...Read more

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