The death count is what we should focus on since other covid numbers at this point are unreliable Over the last few weeks, we have been drowned every day in waves of projections on the likely spread of covid-19.
Since the beginning of the national lockdown, with much more time on our hands, many of us have possibly got obsessed with these.
This could be leading to more fear, fed by uncertainty, since the projections vary widely, from the apocalyptic (on 20 March, epidemiologist Ramanan Laxminarayan predicted that India could see 1-3 million deaths in the next three to eight weeks, that is, 10 April-15 May) to “Indians have nothing to fear".
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