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> I'm sure this can (and does) happen basically anywhere, but according to this article one state in India alone has 40k "dead" people, so the scale is way different.

India has about 20 times the population of France. So if it's normal for something to happen to 2k people in France, then that alone scales up to 40k people in India.

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Is there any indication that there are two thousand cases in France, though? So far in this discussion we’ve seen evidence of one.

No, it's certainly a much bigger problem in India than France. The intent was just to emphasize that “just one state in India” is not a small / low population place, but comparable to larger European countries. I did that pretty badly though.

To point out another mistake I made, I forgot to compare the population of the state alone v/s France – which is 3.5x, not 20x (as another commenter says [1]). So the equivalent case for France would be ~10k such cases, which would hopefully be reported about more widely.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299098

Uttar Pradesh has a population of "only" 240M, about 3.5x that of France.

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