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WHO Reports 14.9 Million Excess Deaths in 2020–2021
WHO publishes its first comprehensive global excess mortality estimates, finding that the pandemic caused approximately 14.9 million excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 alone — nearly 2.74 times the officially reported COVID death toll. The study, published in Nature, uses statistical models for countries lacking complete data.
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- T1 WHO Excess Mortality Report Official
- T2 Nature – WHO excess mortality estimates Major