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https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet > 32.7 million [24.8 million–42.2 million] people have died from
by tpmx 6y ago
https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet
> 32.7 million [24.8 million–42.2 million] people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic.
Hopefully covid-19 could end up causing ~10x fewer deaths.
- asveikau 6y agoWhen you put it that way, my comment looks pretty insensitive for trying to hedge. Of course HIV/AIDS counts for this!
- tpmx 6y agoI didn't intend to put you on the spot. I was equally surprised when I looked up the numbers. I knew HIV/AIDS death numbers were bad, but not that bad. And as an FYI, from the same UN site (abridged): Yearly HIV/AIDS deaths have been reduced by 60% since the peak in 2004. In 2019: 690k deaths. In 2004: 1.7M deaths. Things weren't necessarily better in the past. Technology and science developments help! It's not all tech gloom.