India's Covid toll might have been more than 8 times officially reported

[formerkrogemp]

Is it possible many countries underreported the death toll?

[jleyank]

Is it possible some didn't? It was politically and economically useful to underplay or even ignore the risk from Covid. Once started on this path, governments at any level had to undercount and ignore to avoid being so screwed up that the mob would see. Even with the most level, honest approach it was impossible during some of the Covid time to know how many people had it, how many died from vs. with it, etc.

[naruvimama]

It is possible that a lot of it was done at the province level.

There are incentives to both under report & over report (to get more resources allocated).