Over the last week, Covid has overtaken TB as the single most dangerous communicable disease in India, crossing the 1,000 daily death mark and moving into the 2,000 zone. Table below shows comparison of daily deaths in India and US in pre-Covid times. Short morbid thread (1/n) 
2K Covid daily deaths (reported) on 26K daily deaths (pre-Covid) reflects close to 10% surge. In US, in early-Feb, 5K Covid daily deaths on 8K daily deaths (pre-Covid) reflected close to 60% surge. At that kind of a surge rate, India would have 15K Covid daily deaths.
Hopefully we don't get anywhere close to that. But the surge is going to continue past 2K. Attention to crematoriums and cemetery's, already on, will intensify. Cruel as it sounds, some planning on this end for the next one month would give some dignity to the suffering families
A related issue is to know how many died of Covid and not, for scientific research purposes. With the death surge, the death registration system gets affected. Imperative for the govt. to release all-cause death data on a timely basis (like we did 100 years ago) like the USA-CDC:
This public tweet thread is in a way a rehash of this November 1918 letter to the editor of the Times of India, during the Influenza outbreak (when 200K were dying daily across the subcontinent).
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