Q: How many people have died globally from COVID-19? A: Probably more than the confirmed count, but it's really hard to sayhttps://coronavirus.medium.com/how-many-people-have-died-of-covid-19-60243f60bc25 …
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However this is likely to be pretty modest in scale - mostly impacts high-income countries, and inflates the death toll by maximum 10-15%
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Conversely, there is strong evidence that in low-income places, the death toll from COVID-19 is undercounted, sometimes by a factor of 10x or more
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Even in high-income places, there is evidence from excess mortality calculations that some proportion of deaths caused by COVID-19 are being missed
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All in all, we may be overcounting COVID-19 deaths by a modest amount, but we are almost certainly undercounting them by a much larger fraction. The true death toll may be 50%+ higher
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