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New York, March 11 (IANS) The global Covid-19 death toll may be three times higher than what the official pandemic fatality records suggest, according to an

The global COVID death toll is closer to 18.2 million through 2021, with wide regional variations, data indicate.

Researchers estimate more than 18.2 million people may have died because of the pandemic by the end of December last year.

More than 28 million extra years of life were lost among 31 well-off nations.

In many parts of the world, official death tolls undercount the total number of fatalities | Graphic detail

A new study estimates that life expectancy in the United States decreased by nearly two years from 2018 to 2020, primarily due to the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. life expectancy decreased by an alarming amount during pandemic Kaitlin Sullivan © Provided by NBC News Average life expectancy in the United States plummeted in 2020, widening the life expectancy gap between the U.S. and other high-income countries. The decline was particularly sharp among Hispanic and Black Americans, a new study found. Health experts anticipated life expectancy would drop during the pandemic, but how much it did came as a surprise. “I naively thought...

You might need a Covid-19 booster shot CNN 3 hrs ago Got your Covid-19 vaccine? Great. But you may need another round within a year. A booster dose for people who have already been vaccinated may be needed as soon as eight to 12 months after their second shot, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said yesterday. As inoculations around the world continue to increase, medical experts believe coronavirus may end u...

2 hr 56 min ago Destruction of Gazas Covid-19 lab poses high risk of virus spreading, say Palestinian health officials From CNNs Richard Greene in Jerusalem and Hande Atay Alam in Izmir, Turkey A medical worker works at the Rimal Clinic in Gaza on April 28. Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua/Getty Images Gazas main Covid-19 laboratory, the Rimal clinic, is unable to carry out coronavirus testing after being destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health said, warning the ...

What if the pandemic never happened? For arguments sake, if fate had taken a different course – and we were spared the deadly consequences of COVID-19 – what would 2020 have looked like?