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If the pandemic were truly killing millions of people every month then by this point we'd've seen a dip in the global population.
by gr1zzlybe4r 4y ago
If the pandemic were truly killing millions of people every month then by this point we'd've seen a dip in the global population.
- rnk 4y agoMaybe not millions a month but excess deaths are a real thing. That's from loss of treatments bc of the covid impact on the entire worldwide health system, as well as people getting sick or weakened from covid, and then people dying from covid directly. Last cal year: about 5 mil covid deaths, about 15 million more people died than expected (aka excess deaths) - so 10 million more on top of covid https://www.who.int/data/stories/global-excess-deaths-associated-with-covid-19-january-2020-december-2021 https://www.who.int/data/stories/global-excess-deaths-associ.... This other paper has more breakdown. Search for "estimated cumulative excess deaths", 15-25 million through Sept 2022. It's ballpark but it's not insignificant. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid