Another 16 deaths at the Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania will be referred to the coroner following an investigation, with the Greens labelling the development "deeply distressing". Edited death certificates a 'serious matter' The independent review was launched following allegations aired at a parliamentary inquiry that a senior staff member edited death certificates resulting in some deaths not being referred …
On August 10, The Hindu carried an op-ed, “ COVID-19 deaths may be higher than reported ”, by two community physicians, Hemant Deepak Shewade and Giridara Gopal Parameswaran. In this column, I wrote about the disastrous effects of data manipulation by quoting Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase: “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.” With …
As on July 31, India had the third highest burden of COVID-19 globally. Estimated COVID-19 deaths To adjust for the prevailing under-registration of deaths and poor coverage of MCCD, we multiplied the reported COVID-19 deaths by a multiplication factor. This estimated COVID-19 deaths per million population is higher than Russia, similar to South Africa and lower than the U.S., Brazil, …