Spread of Covid-19 in urban neighbourhoods and slums of the developing world · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2010.06958/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTSpread of Covid-19 in urban neighbourhoods and slums of the developing world — mentioned by mschuster91https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29877480urn:hackerpapers:mention:2010.06958:29877480Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:42:34 GMT<p>&gt; What incentive does the country have to under report COVID deaths? Get some glorious trophy from the west on its stellar COVID management? Local politicians may have other motives - there have been close links of COVID prevalence among the extreme poor / in slums [1], for example. Concealing COVID deaths may be an attempt to hide the fact that the government has failed to serve that community. Additionally, there may be fiscal impacts based on COVID classification - not sure what India in specific is doing, but for example, the US covers funeral costs for COVID deaths. Three million COVID…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2010.06958/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.soc-ph