India's Excess Death Right Isn't Among the Highest in the World, According to the Wh O

W h o estimated that India had suffered four point seven million exces deaths. That figure prompted a back lash from the indian government and its supporters. It disputes the foundational data used by the w h o to produce these estimates, which is a bit of a sort of cach 22 situation. I think one of the things that so happened in the last couple of days since the w t estimates came out, is a sort of nationalistic tone to some of the reporting," he says.