Under the Supreme Court’s directives, any death that happens within 30 days of being diagnosed with COVID-19 is counted as due to the disease. This has poor specificity in excluding non-COVID-19 deaths as it does not take into account any clinical or epidemiological evidence and results in inflated COVID-19 mortality statistics.

Mortality measures are considered robust epidemiological indicators for assessing the human and economic impacts of any disease. Many pandemics were ranked on their death toll rather than the cumulative incidence or the secondary attack rate (Akin and Gozel 2020; Viboud et al 2016; Lemaitre et al 2012; Miranda et al 2022). They also help evaluate the public health actions adopted by the nations and their health infrastructure. The population-adjusted number of deaths and the case fatality proportion are commonly used to rank pandemics. However, mortality of the same disease can vary with time, place, and person (O’Donnel 2021).

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Impact of the Supreme Court Verdict on COVID-19 Mortality in Kerala

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27.04.2024

Under the Supreme Court’s directives, any death that happens within 30 days of being diagnosed with COVID-19 is counted as due to the disease. This has poor specificity in excluding non-COVID-19 deaths as it does not take into account any clinical or epidemiological evidence and results in inflated COVID-19........

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