Opinion | The official pandemic death toll is horrific. The actual toll could be twice that.

An important measure, excess death, is the difference between the number of deaths observed from all causes and what would normally be expected during the same, pandemic-free time period. This helps shed light on the true extent of the damage, and the results may startle you. For example, India’s reported fee amount is about 419,470. But when Abhishek Anand and colleagues at Global Development Center Looking at three different data sources, they estimate that the excess mortality rate in India during the pandemic is “one order of magnitude” larger than the official figure, or about 3.4 million to 4.9 million cases. case of death. Although the study warned that a data gap remained, they concluded that India may have misjudged the scale of the first wave, when up to 2 million people may have died. They concluded that “the failure to capture the scale of the tragedy in real time during the first wave may have created a collective complacency that led to the horrors of the second wave.” In the United States, the death toll of covid-19 is 610,387, but one person recently learn, by A. Danielle Iuliano and colleagues, from March 8, 2020 to May 29, 2021, found 766,611 coronavirus deaths, of which 24% were not recorded on the death certificate, the owner Weakness is in the elderly.