Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): With Pakistan playing the ball with the Taliban, the refugee crisis in Afghanistan post-Taliban threatens to prolong and needs continued focus.
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Pandemic deaths have numbed our humanity and perception of risk
COVID-19 is not the first event to demonstrate the numbing effect of big data, but it reinforces the challenge of developing a true perspective of risk.
This article was first published in the newsletter Managing Outcomes
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On one terrible day in December, COVID-19 deaths on a single day in the United States for the first time exceeded the death toll from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
Commentators noted that the 3054 COVID fatalities in one 24-hour period also exceeded the deaths at Pearl Harbour in 1941, and more than died as a result of the Johnstown flood in 1889; Hurricane Katrina in 2005; Hurricane Maria in 2017; and the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.