World Bank Group (via Public) / Relative severity of COVID-19 mortality: A new indicator on the World Bank's data platform
For over a year now, we have been inundated by information on the pandemic's health emergency, where the evolution of COVID-19 mortality has been of central interest. We have all witnessed the steady climb of the global mortality toll to the staggering level of 2.6 million people as of writing this blog. We have also witnessed the dramatic shifts from one epicenter to the next. The chilling data have been accompanied by two typical reactions. The first is one of disbelief and the thought that the severity of COVID-19 is overstated ('it's just a bad flu') - an argument that was particularly pr...