Global coronavirus death toll is double official estimates, analysis suggests
Roughly 6.9 million people have died from Covid-19, experts say, a figure expected to hit 9.4 million by September
7 May 2021 • 1:21pm
A worker walks near pyres for cremating the bodies of victims who died after contracting Covid-19 on the banks of the Ganges river in India
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Across the globe roughly 6.9 million people have died from Covid-19, according to a new analysis which suggests the death toll is twice as high as official reports.
The report, published by scientists at the University of Washington’s renowned Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), found that fatalities are vastly undercounted worldwide due to patchy testing and overwhelmed health systems.
Pops » Wed 24 Feb 2021, 10:45:51
Newfie wrote:For sake of clarification lets assume human population will eventually drop to say 5 billion. Is it better to drop from 8 billion than from 10 billion? Assume that the drop in either case will be from famine, disease, and war; fairly miserable ways to die.
What matters is the reason for the drop, you assume it is excess deaths but that s not what s happening right now and likely not going to happen.
The collapse that IS in fact happening is voluntary, it is in births not deaths.
U of Washington study in the Lancet estimates total fertility to be 1.66 in 2100. That is Extinction level.