The pandemic’s true death toll
www.economist.com
Our daily estimate of excess deaths around the world

Although the official number of deaths caused by covid-19 is now 7m, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 27.1m people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.9m and 32.9m additional deaths.

    • macabrett[they/them]@lemmy.ml6•8 months ago

      You can usually put them into archive.org and get behind paywalls like someone else in this thread posted: https://web.archive.org/web/20231019065555/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]3•8 months ago

        I tried using it on

        https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1001020294332922160

        Without success. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]5•8 months ago

            Gratzi. For years, I've just kinda ignored everything a paywall rather than doing the right and proper thing (re: 🏴‍☠️ )

            I'll try to stay on the straight and narrow from here on in.