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Combatting Covid-19 : on relative performance of the Indian States
Marjit, Sugata; Mukhopadhyay, Anish Kumar; Chatterjee, Medha - 2020
The purpose of this paper is to construct a relative performance index for the States in India in terms of their performance in combatting Covid-19 pandemic. The data is analyzed up to August, 2020, though the methodology used can be readily extended to update the index. The methodology can be...
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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate
Philip, Minu - 2020
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of around 2.2%. The world average rate is far higher, at around 4%. Several observers have noted that this difference is at least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In...
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Three new estimates of India's all-cause excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anand, Abhishek; Sandefur, Justin; Subramanian, Arvind - 2021
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Fairness, technology adoption, water sanitation and pandemic control : six essays on four topics in development economics
Ghisolfi, Selene - 2020
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Using Household Rosters from Survey Data to Estimate All-cause Mortality during COVID in India
Malani, Anup; Ramachandran, Sabareesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
between COVID and excess deaths, the pattern of excess deaths is consistent with COVID-associated mortality. Excess deaths …Official statistics on deaths in India during the COVID pandemic are either incomplete or are reported with a delay. To … overcome this shortcoming, we estimate excess deaths in India using the household roster from a large panel data set, the …
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The importance of investing in a public health system : evidence from COVID-19 mortality
Balakrishnan, Pulapre; Namboodhiry, Sreenath K. - In: Indian economic review : official journal of Delhi … 56 (2021) 1, pp. 233-254
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All-Cause Mortality During Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic in India : Nationally-Representative Estimates Independent of Official Death Registry
Ramachandran, Sabareesh; Malani, Anup - 2021
We estimate excess deaths in India during the COVID pandemic using monthly deaths in the sample of a privately … spans January 2015 - June 2021. We estimate COVID is associated with 3.36 million (95% CI: 2.08-4.63 million) excess deaths …, a 17.3% increase in the all-cause death rate, until April 2021. Excess deaths spike during the peaks of the 2 infection …
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Gendered Differentials in Symptoms, Morbidity, and Case Fatality Rate in COVID-19 Pandemic in India : A Study of Karnataka State
Ranjan, Shubham; kaur, Anupreet; Thakur, Ramna - 2021
need, this study has analyzed the gender wise pattern of symptoms, morbidity, multimorbidity, and mortality due to COVID-19 … females. Males tend to have a higher risk of severe infection and mortality in general while females suffering from … comorbidities like diabetes and hypertension are at higher risk of mortality due to COVID-19 than male counterparts. Latent class …
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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate
Philip, Minu - 2020
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of around 2.2%. The world average rate is far higher, at around 4%. Several observers have noted that this difference is at least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In...
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India's lockdown : an interim report
Ray, Debraj; Subramanian, S. - 2020
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