Have we reached the point where more people are dying from lack of care than from Covid itself? The reason is simply. Capacity is a key determinant of survival rates. Te health care infra is weak and was overwhelmed even by the numbers we saw in the first wave. This is beyond it.
If a hospital can hold survival rates about 99% while treating a max of 100 patients at a time, it can at best stretch itself to treat 150 at a time without worsening the survival rate. In the current scenario, it has to deal with 1000 patients, and that's for Covid alone.
That means, beyond 150 patients no one is getting even a minimum level of care. In that scenario the survival rate drops quickly for all 850. Even if we rush new infra and equipment to hospitals in two weeks, we could still see 3000+ officially recorded deaths for a whole month.
Covid deaths themselves are under-counted quite a bit. Other deaths resulting from lack of infrastructure and service are not counted at all since many of those people don't even get admitted anywhere. Somewhere around 25,000 people a day could be dying, as a combined result.
Meanwhile, we are unable to get the aid we're getting from other countries moving to reach patients. States that are badly hit by the second wave have no information from the government about when this relief will reach them - scroll.in/article/993973…
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