The first lesson is that undercounting is widespread. We cannot reliably infer the scale of India’s unrecorded coronavirus deaths from such reports. We have seen page after page of obituaries from cities officially recording just a few deaths from the coronavirus. Media reports have told us of big discrepancies in official data, of graveyards running out of space, of temporary cremation grounds, and of shortages of wood to fuel the burning pyres.
To deal with a problem we must first understand how bad it is.Īnd because it’s vital for our collective memory. To spread doom and gloom for the sake of it? No.Ĭoz it’s an important tool for epidemiologists? Not only that.
Why do we need to correctly count all covid deaths?
