: Lancet study on India’s excess deaths due to Covid-19 is misinformed, claims Centre #IndiaNEWS A study published in medical journal The Lancet stating that India’s coronavirus mortality rate is

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Lancet study on India’s excess deaths due to Covid-19 is misinformed, claims Centre #IndiaNEWS
A study published in medical journal The Lancet stating that India’s coronavirus mortality rate is higher than official figures is speculative and misinformed, the health ministry claimed on Friday.The statement was issued a day after the medical journal said in the study that India had the highest number of excess deaths in the world at 40.7 lakh between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021.Excess deaths is the divergence between all-cause deaths reported during pandemic years and in normal years. The numbers are an indicator for undercounting of deaths caused by Covid-19.In a statement, the health ministry said, “Such predictions are founded on a certain set of inputs either based on real-world scenarios, or approximations of those inputs that are not available.� It also claimed that such studies often take a “small actual sample� and extrapolate the result to the entire population. “While this may achieve near accurate results for a small homogenous country/region, such techniques have failed repeatedly to give reliable results for a large, diverse population,� the statement added.It pointed out that the study had taken into account an estimation model of excess mortality that has not been peer-reviewed. This input, according to the health ministry, raises serious concerns about the accuracy of the results of the exercise.“The pandemic had multiple...Read more

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