More than 4.7 million people in India - nearly 10 times higher than official records suggest - are thought to have died because of Covid-19, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report. India's government has rejected the figure, saying the methodology is flawed.
In the west with their pan health coverage, if you showed more covid deaths then you got more funding. So what did they do? Show more,
We don't have that here. So we adopted a strict distinction between
by or
with.
In the west, they were arguing covid causes multiple organ failure. So heart attack or whatever but covid positive counts as covid death but will not in India unless its lung related.
take your figure of 4.7 million, if it was that high you would have seen bodies on the street. Did you see many? Can't hide it. I couldn't see them in Wuhan and I was tracking what was going on there in Feb '20 pretty closely with bloggers in the city.
WHO figures suggest India's reported pandemic deaths are far higher than the government reported.
www.bbc.com
Yeah, disagree. They will never accept India did better than them with less resources.
If Taiwan's CDC was in charge of matters, instead of WHO the world would have been better off. But Taiwan's CDC was ignored. Why? because everyone knows Taiwan does not officially exist
So, there it goes.
Getting death certificate with Covid19 as cause of death mentioned was a struggle, personally realized this issue after death of someone near in family. May be mine is one anecdote, but there are many around everyone.
If cause of death was not lung related then it won't count.
There was something else that I heard from a swiss immunologist who junked this asymptomatic business. Until then epidemiologists were in the spotlight. They were the rockstars.
This guy said the tests they did with 80s tech were unable to distinguish between viable or dead virus RNA in the blood. If any RNA was detected it was judged as infected. But if you do not have any symptoms then it's clear you defeated the virus and what was being detected was a dead virus. We lacked a way to distinguish so the infected cases shot up but the number of people actually getting very sick was not proportional. There are other things that gave us an edge over the west as well.
Demographics for one. 90% of India is under the age of 60. Also, we don't have anywhere near the number of old age homes they have there.
India, ME & Africa were getting slammed because of poor healthcare networks. Well in the ME & Africa 2/3 of the population is under the age of 30 so I think they did ok. This virus didn't target the young like a century back. It went after older people. Nobody bothered to point this out.
Much hotter here so people tend to be outdoors more than stuck indoors breathing the same air.
Compliance. Nobody questioned whether to wear masks or not. Most complied. No vaccine hesitancy either. Full confidence in the vaccine here. Unlike abroad.
And that is how countries less well off actually did better than the west