If India experiences the same kind of outbreak that better-prepared nations are struggling to manage, the South Asian giant soon could find itself with millions of deaths and a ravaged economy…. India’s accelerating COVID-19 crisis risks quickly overwhelming its health care system and dramatically thwarting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attempts to reinvigorate the country’s economy. COVID-19 has begun spreading in India at an exponential rate, with more 9,240 confirmed cases of the virus as of April 13. The true number of cases, however, may be much higher, given that India had only conducted 195,748 tests for COVID-19 for its 1.4 billion people as of April 12. The 1918 influenza pandemic killed an estimated 17 million people in India – an astonishing 5.2 percent of the country’s population at the time. Today, there are fears that India remains ill-equipped to deal with the current COVID-19 outbreak, and that if it […]