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Delta threatens rural regions that dodged earlier COVID waves.

Smriti Mallapaty
- 01 Aug 2021 - 
- Vol. 596, Iss: 7872, pp 325-326
TLDR
Data on the spread of the variant in India make researchers fearful for areas in developing nations that lack health care and vaccines as mentioned in this paper, which makes them fearful to use vaccines in these areas.
Abstract
Data on the variant’s spread in India make researchers fearful for areas in developing nations that lack health care and vaccines. Data on the variant’s spread in India make researchers fearful for areas in developing nations that lack health care and vaccines.

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Excess mortality in India from June 2020 to June 2021 during the COVID pandemic: death registration, health facility deaths, and survey data

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified all-cause excess mortality in India, comparing deaths during the peak of the first and second COVID waves (Jul-Dec 2020 and April-June 2021) with month wise deaths in 2015-19 from three sources: Civil Registration System (CRS) mortality reports from 15 states or cities with 37% of India's population; deaths in 0.2 million health facilities; and a representative survey of 0.14 million adults about COVID deaths.