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> But there's consensus among the scientific community that it's being widely under-reported

Define consensus.

I used to work at Our World in Data, so I am biased, but I would consider them the most trustworthy curator of data sources (for one, they are open source and open to pull requests). So while there indeed may be problems with the India data (and we were constantly switching to better sources as they appeared), I would trust their data sources more than any one person on YouTube.




> Define consensus.

> I would trust their data sources more than any one person on YouTube

Certainly not just a single person. I'm sure if you have a trusted news source, You might find an article on the subject like these -

CNN: 'As Covid sweeps India, experts say cases and deaths are going unreported' - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/27/india/india-covid-underre...

AP: 'Why number of COVID cases in India is exponentially higher than reported' - https://abc7chicago.com/india-covid-cases-coronavirus-case-c...

NYT: 'As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted' - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...

Sky news: 'COVID-19: India crematoriums 'underreporting bodies' as suspicion grows over true number of coronavirus deaths ' - https://news.sky.com/story/india-crematoriums-underreporting...

Bloomberg: 'Even Record Death Toll May Hide Extent of India’s Covid Crisis' - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/even-reco...

ncbi: 'Underreporting COVID-19: the curious case of the Indian subcontinent' - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508490/

There are local regional(state) media trying to count the uncounted deaths like these -

BBC report on that: 'India's Covid crisis: The newsroom counting the uncounted deaths' - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56969086 . I wonder whether Our World In Data would accept these data, If so it would be worth a PR then again its just the data of a state.




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