When we have seen total healthcare breakdowns (Wuhan, Italy, NYC, etc.) the efficiency of hospital care drops like a rock due to both overstressed medical staff and the staff themselves also catching COVID. I would expect India to follow the same pattern, but exacerbated by the lack of capacity.
(The trend is different though, there's hope)
Plus, at least in the first wave in Bangalore (where I grew up), there were no instances of crematoriums melting down and such. So the under-reporting of deaths was likely not as bad in the first wave as it is right now, but the under-reporting of cases was certainly quite large as testing capacity took a while to come online.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_ho...
I can understand not being able to treat them but at least isolate them…
Unbelievable!
> New York, home to the nation’s largest outbreak of Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, is rushing to build a temporary hospital in a Manhattan conference center in the hope of staying ahead of the fast-spreading disease.
> Hospitals in parts of New York City have become so full of critically ill patients that they have steered ambulances elsewhere. The full-to-capacity morgue at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens is using a refrigerated truck to hold some of the dead. Thirteen people died in the hospital in the last 24 hours, said NYC Health + Hospitals, which operates Elmhurst.
Morgue capacity makes sense simply because of the population who was coming down with COVID at the time.
Without agreement on that though, we’re just shouting at each other.