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January 07, 2022
Since 2014, Open Philanthropy has directed over $1.5 billion in grants, and plans to give an additional $1 billion during 2022 and 2023 to evidence-based charities working in global health and development. How should an evidence-minded donor pick among competing causes offering different kinds of be...
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July 20, 2021
India lacks an authoritative estimate of the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. We report excess mortality estimates from three different data sources from the pandemic’s start through June 2021. Estimating COVID-deaths with statistical confidence may prove elusive. But all estimates suggest tha...
Blog Post
July 20, 2021
The official Covid death count in India as of end-June 2021 is 400,000. The reality is, of course, catastrophically worse. Unlike in other countries, authoritative excess death estimates based on official data have not been available because government recording of deaths, especially at the center, ...