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Each day, the government reports more than 300,000 new infections, a world record, and India is now seeing more new infections than any other country by far, almost half of all new cases in a global surge.
But experts say those numbers, however staggering, represent just a fraction of the real reach of the virus’s spread, which has thrown this country into emergency mode. Millions of people refuse to even step outside — their fear of catching the virus is that extreme. Accounts from around the country tell of the sick being left to gasp for air as they wait at chaotic hospitals that are running out of lifesaving oxygen.
The sudden surge in recent weeks, with an insidious newer variant possibly playing a role, is casting increasing doubt on India’s official Covid-19 death toll of nearly 200,000, with more than 2,000 people dying every day.
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“It’s a complete massacre of data,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan who has been following India closely. “From all the modeling we’ve done, we believe the true number of deaths is two to five times what is being reported.”
At one of the large cremation grounds in Ahmedabad, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, bright orange fires light up the night sky, burning 24 hours a day, like an industrial plant that never shuts down. Suresh Bhai, a worker there, said he had never seen such a never-ending assembly line of death.
Read this and look at the photographs. POwerful.
- its nuts, we may go from 3 to 5 mil covid deaths globally in a matter of months. and the UK govt promoting a 'mask free summer'kingsteven
- please, please, please find a smarter source of info than NYT. That's like eating McDonalds for your nutritional needs.pr2
- this comment is not even about our disagreement about covid but rather than you purposefully make mush of your mind with NYT.pr2
- thatpr2
- Well most likely this is what China had at the beginning of the pandemic, but didn't disclose.********
- That’s so fucking horrific._niko
- pr2 videotaped a couple doctors and thinks he’s smarter than the epidemiologist and all the journalists involved in this piece.********
- Lol if nyt is MacDonald’s, your sources are the rat infested dumpsters behind macdonakds_niko
- Should we going to trust the epidemiologist from the University of Mich. or the random videographer with no credentials at all? HMMMMM********
- *Are********
- i'm definitely smarter than a few of you "gentlemen" who in XXI century believe in impartially of media behemoths.pr2
- Oh wait, i used big words, so let me simplify: cave - you - in - has - a door - you - don't - want - to - see.pr2
- (of course none of the dummies will get the allusion)pr2
- pr2 hasn’t posted a source here in months. He posts numbers without source and a lot of “oh I talked to people” bullshit. Ignorant fool.********
- Then he calls us cavemen and wonders why no one listens to him! Hahaha I feel bad for you son********
- nb i'm so sorry for mixing the two of you up a few weeks ago :D pr2 i don't read any of this shite, i just look at stats as close to source and i've been wrongkingsteven
- (to my credit usually optimistically) multiple times in the last year based on interpreting scientific papers. you have a point here and there but the fact youkingsteven
- keep posting, it serves no purpose other than iconoclasm and is only testament to your own stupiditykingsteven
- nb, just cause you can't read, don't blame others for your own shortcoming.pr2
- king, i keep posting to offset some people's complete ignorance. the fact that i have to explain how basic math works...pr2
- ... or how basics of body immunity work is just shameful.pr2
- there are cartoons about human body that my 5 yo watches that make him smarter than some here and that's just disturbing.pr2
- how often do you win arguments with your 5 year old? :D if you think you have facts lay them out and let others argue it, no need to stoke the firekingsteven
- The NYT isn't perfect but lol @ thinking a story can be totally dismissed just because it appears in one of the biggest papers in the country.yuekit
- As a filmmaker surely you understand these stories are created by regular journalists, photographers etc, working in difficult conditions.yuekit
- pr2 has gone Full Karen.********
- For the record, you have not needed to, or even remotely “explained how basic math works,” you dumb fucking piece of ignorant shit.monospaced
- You don’t wear a mask because you don’t like it. You think anyone who does is a victim of fear mongering. You skew numbers for this agenda. Idiot.monospaced
- Oh, and using XXI for 21st makes you look even more stupid than deathboy, even though you thought you looked smart. You goddamn joke.monospaced