The pandemic’s true death toll: Our daily estimate of excess deaths around the world | Graphic detail
Excerpt -- [wonderful graphics at original that I could not capture--Linda]
How many people have
died because of the covid-19 pandemic? The answer depends both on the
data available, and on how you define “because”. Many people who die
while infected with SARS-CoV-2 are never tested for it, and do not enter
the official totals. Conversely, some people whose deaths have been
attributed to covid-19 had other ailments that might have ended their
lives on a similar timeframe anyway. And what about people who died of
preventable causes during the pandemic, because hospitals full of
covid-19 patients could not treat them? If such cases count, they must
be offset by deaths that did not occur but would have in normal times,
such as those caused by flu or air pollution.
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