And some lessons are not ever learned.

There are a few things about India you do not know.

1. Don't believe official numbers. India and US deaths are underreported. US deaths are due to low immunity, Experts now say that US actually have 900,000 deaths and India has 2000,000 deaths. India deaths are due to neglect, lack of medical care and poverty.
2. Many deaths in India are not counted or certified. People die in villages and families just create them in villages. It just needs some wood and land.

Data is data. [worldometers.info]

@BDair

Incorrectly reported data is incorrect data.
China has the lowest Covid fatality. Does anyone believe that? Russia has very low and North Korea has no fatalities. That is data also.

How are you able to ascertain what data is correct?

From Johns Hopkins.

@BDair

You or I cannot nor should we take the data prima facie as correct. We read news about what experts are saying about the integrity of the data. The integrity has been in question a lot lately.

There is a general understanding that advanced societies where government transparency has matured and data is reporting is not controlled by government agencies, data is at least not intentionally manipulated, the data are generally reliable. But nations where there are authoritarian and fascist governments and also where a reliable reporting mechanisms don't exist... the data are not at all reliable.... like in Syria, Turkey, China, Egypt, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, India etc.

There have been reports now that US Covid deaths have been underreported. [cfr.org]

Generally, common sense should prevail. We all know Russia, China, North Korea, India, Egypt will never report country data honestly. Data are used to pump of successes and underreported played down failures.

There is a paper that presents an alternative viewpoint. [metabolichealing.com]