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Pandemic’s two-year global death toll may be close to 15 million
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Pandemic’s two-year global death toll may be close to 15 million

by Dennis Thompson  Almost 15 million people likely died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, nearly three times more than previously reported, a new World Health Organization study estimates. The researchers said the COVID-19 pandemic caused about 4.5 million more deaths than would have been expected in 2020, and 10.4...

Death toll nears 6 million as pandemic enters its 3rd year
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Death toll nears 6 million as pandemic enters its 3rd year

by David Rising  Registered nurse Rachel Chamberlin steps out of an isolation room where Fred Rutherford recovers from COVID-19 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million—underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is...