@LeftistLawyer @bignose I wonder how much we could rely on reporting from India, especially the rural parts where people may be born and die without much of a paper trail. In the US, the CDC changed the threshold for what would be attributed to a COVID death from 90 days to just 30 days back in 2022, when the metric of interest was also redefined as "community levels" vs "transmission levels". A similar sleight of hand could be applied to say heat stroke fallout, but maybe not drowning.