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.

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]29•8 months ago

    final bullet point:

    • sheer luck

    cause no offense, you seem like you've got a great routine and I'm happy for you but plenty of people just as or more paranoid about covid have gotten it. Esp if you work in a school, that's luck. A lot of it. But you are definitely stacking the odds in your favor too.