World Health Organization (WHO) report of 4.7 million “extra” Covid deaths in India doesn’t make sense, says the head of the country’s Covid Working Group. The report is “worrisome,” NK Arora.
This morning, an official from India’s Covid Working Group told the media that the number of virus-related deaths isn’t always 100% correct. The country has a system called the Civil Registration System that is very accurate and robust.
“Excess” Covid deaths took place in India between January 2020 and December 2021. That’s 10 times more than the official figure and almost a third of all Covid deaths worldwide. More than double the official figure of 6 million, the report said. The global figure was 15 million, which was more than double.
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The report is called “In 2018, about 85 to 88 percent of deaths were covered. This is ridiculous and not true.” People who died in 2020 were covered 98% to 99% of the time. In 2018 and 2019, seven million more people died. All of them were Covid. Out of the extra 4.6 million, 1.45 people died. Other things caused these three million deaths. It doesn’t matter how many extra deaths we say there were. Even if we say there were 4 lakh extra deaths, it doesn’t fit the WHO estimates. “In this case, I would say
States could not have told the Center about deaths if they didn’t want them to. “There was a lag, but now that the Supreme Court has ruled, every state has been reporting the backlog of deaths that were not reported before. In Kerala and other states that do well, more deaths have been added to the total number of people who have died. There will be some gaps in India, but not “10 times” as many as is being said. “In this case, I would say:
“Because the Indian definition of Covid is that any deaths that happen in one month are Covid. But there hasn’t been anything like that. There aren’t any relatives of 40 million people who have come to claim their money yet. So there are a lot of discrepancies in the WHO report, so “he said:
Dr. NK Arora said that the WHO ignored India’s data and used its statistical models, even though India had reliable death records.
There may be some deaths that aren’t recorded because everything isn’t written down, but the way WHO has put us in Tier 2 countries where no data is available is not right, he said.
Tier 2 countries are those that WHO doesn’t have access to all of the data for, so they need to use other data sources or apply scaling factors to get the national aggregate.
“We have a very strong system. There has been a steady rise in the number of people who have died. Even if we have missed 10% of the deaths, there can’t be anything like WHO says. Our death rate per million is very low. Journals said that we would die in 2020. They said that it would take us five years to immunize our one billion people. However, this has been proven to be wrong, “he said more.
India has strongly disputed the World Health Organization’s use of a mathematical model to figure out how many people have died from Covid. They say the figure is “totally removed from reality.” The Indian government says that the country has an “extremely robust” system of recording births and deaths. The Union health ministry says that the WHO’s method of collecting data is “statistically unsound and scientifically unsound.”
In India, some of the country’s top health experts are also unhappy with the WHO’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to the figure. ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava, NITI Aayog Member V K Paul, and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria were disappointed.
“To put us in a bad light isn’t good,” said Dr. VK Paul.
Covid deaths are still being worked out, but the government has nothing to hide, says Dr. Paul.
“All of our people are there, and we have a strong system from the ground up. We don’t accept these numbers, so we don’t accept them, “He said.
It was said by Dr. Balram Bhargava that there was no standard way to describe the death of a Covid.
Dr. Randeep Guleria said that he didn’t like the WHO report. “This is what I’m going to say about it. You can get birth and death records in India because they have a very good system. Data that WHO hasn’t looked at has not been used. Because WHO used more hearsay evidence or what has been in the news or comes from unconfirmed sources, this is a second important thing to note: That data itself isn’t sure. Even when you have data, it’s not right to do modeling on that data. It’s not scientifically correct, and it’s not right to do that, even when you have data. “He said that.
Another problem is that India has been very willing to pay money to people who have died from COVID-19. This has been very public, says Dr. Guleria.
