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Mortality rates drop sharply in parts of India, bucking coronavirus trend

reuters.com

15 pointsadventured9 comments

“ Indian doctors, officials and crematorium employees suspect a drop in the number of road and rail accidents is a major factor.”

Of course countries with more dangerous roads should expect larger drops during shut in. I wonder if this’ll cause political agitation to create safer roads once this is all over.

The phrase "Never let a crisis go to waste" applies so well here.

This is the chance of the largest democracy and their people to demand better infrastructure, sanitary services from their civic bodies.

The current government's 2019 election manifesto was to spend $1.4 trillion on infrastructure by 2024. Sources - 1. https://www.businesstoday.in/markets/stocks/infra-power-stoc... 2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/india-bjp-releases-ma...

Complete lockdown implies very less movement of populace implies less cross transmission implies less Covid 19 patients implies less deaths due to Covid and otherwise. Not rocket science I presume..

Given the lack of testing (and thus low confirmation numbers) that led to WILD speculation about how heat kills coronavirus, I will not believe a single word about how coronavirus is magically different in India.

There are plenty of other logical explanations for undercounting.

> I will not believe a single word

"believe" being the key word here in many discussions on this stuff, it's a belief not a fact, hopefully many are self aware enough to realise that

hiding mortality rates is an incredibly difficult thing to do in many places on Earth

Read the article. It’s referring to mortality from other causes (road accidents/rail accidents,etc)

The article didn't claim the coronavirus is different in India. It instead was looking at deaths from all causes, and offered some quite plausible explanations.

You know, it might be better if you actually read the article before commenting.

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