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The World Health Organization said more than twice as many people died as a result of the COVID pandemic than official data shows, if including deaths of other causes that might not have occurred in more typical times.
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The WHO estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by COVID-19 or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years — more than double the official death toll of 6 million.
The deaths were either from COVID-19 itself or causes stemming from the disease, such as inadequate care from overwhelmed health systems.
The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years. That is more than double its official death toll. The U.N. health agency says most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas. In a report released Thursday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus describes the figure as “sobering." Accurate numbers on COVID-19 deaths have been problematic throughout the pandemic, as the figures are only a fraction of the devastation wrought by the virus...
Nearly 15 million people were killed by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems, the organization said. The official death toll is 6 million.