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Excess Mortality

2022-02-25 18:52:03.489637+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Nature: The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts

Countries have reported some five million COVID-19 deaths in two years, but global excess deaths are estimated at double or even quadruple that figure.

As Eλf Sternberg @elfsternberg noted

I am struck by this figure: "50 million people died of the Spanish Flu, with 675,000 dying in the United States." So let's get this straight: COVID has killed fewer people worldwide, but MORE Americans, at a time when both the national and global population are much higher.

I am similarly struck that China's life expectancy is now higher than the US's. We have truly abdicated developed nation status.

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