Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

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India’s true pandemic death toll is likely to be well over 3 million, a new study finds.

The number of people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic in India so far is likely to exceed three million — nearly 10 times the official Covid-19 death toll — making it one of the worst human tragedies in the nation’s history, according to a new study.

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 India’s worst human tragedy,” said its authors, one of whom is a former chief economic adviser to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The study released on Tuesday estimated that between 3.4 and 4.7 million more people than would normally be expected died between January 2020 and June 2021, and includes an estimate suggesting that deaths from Covid-19 alone may have reached four million.

“Estimating Covid deaths with statistical confidence may prove elusive,” the authors wrote. “But all estimates suggest that the death toll from the pandemic is likely to be an order of magnitude greater than the official count of 400,000; they also suggest that the first wave was more lethal than is believed.”

“The challenge of the pandemic is far from over,” said Arvind Subramanian, Mr. Modi’s former chief economic adviser and a senior fellow at Brown University who is a co-author of the study. “Vaccination offers the best hope but its pace needs to be ramped up considerably.”
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Mike809 said:
India’s true pandemic death toll is likely to be well over 3 million, a new study finds.
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BK The Great said:
:wtf:Did you read the post?





I don't know. She don't look all that great though.
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I think the consideration here is that hadn't she NOT been vaccinated she would likely have been hospitalised.

The unvaccinated argument is myopic, and always fails to look at the things vaccination affects. For every person who gets vaccinated it's one more person who, even if they catch Covid, are likely to recover at home. Which means hospitals can still function normally where people who have serious issues that aren't Covid related can be seen and dealt with and elective surgeries can continue.

Without vaccinations, the chances of people ending up in hospital increase and more people die, not just from Covid but from other medical conditions that couldn't be treated because there were no doctors or beds available to help them.

If for no other reason that's a good enough one to get jabbed.
 
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