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by asiachick 1881 days ago
Can't you just compare the average death rate to the current death rate? Unfortunately this site has no data for India

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#excess-mor...

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Exactly the point I am making. You can do the analysis and determine the scale but you can't change the official COVID numbers.

In fact, that is even the link you shared shows. It compared the overall death rate with the official COVID numbers and proved the numbers are conservative, in US. Of course.

The NYT did a deep dive in an Indian city using this methodology: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...

The figures are orders of magnitudes greater than what's reported.