Nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally

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In 2021 and 2022, nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally.

The World Health Organization reported that in 2021 and 2022, excess mortality worldwide approached 15 million. 14.83 million more deaths occurred over the first two years of the outbreak alone than were anticipate. In 2021 and 2022, nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally.

Around 15 million additional deaths from any cause may have occurre in 2021 and 2022, which is more than three times the 5.42 million COVID-19 fatalities that were documente during the same two-year period.

The number of deaths that would have occurr globally from January 2021 to December 2022 if the pandemic hadn’t occurred was estimate by William Msemburi and his colleagues at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

The team calculated the yearly death rate for a subset of nations using mortality data from 2015 to 2019; they then compared this figure to the total number of fatalities recorded from all causes during the first two years of the pandemic.

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The researchers used a statistical model to predict the excess fatalities in the countries, some of which were in Africa and the Middle East, that lacked the crucial mortality statistics. Based on countries where mortality statistics were available, the model linked excess fatalities with factors that could influence death rates, such as COVID-19 limitations and the frequency of other disorders like diabetes.

Between the start of 2021 and the end of 2022, there were an additional 14.83 million fatalities worldwide, according to the statistics.

We believe the rise in mortality in 2021 over that in 2020 is due to both the introduction of more contagious COVID-19 genotypes and the spread of COVID-19 into previously uninfected areas, according to Msemburi.

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Excess deaths may also include those who died for non-covid reasons, such as delayed health tests or a reluctance to seek medical treatment amid the height of the pandemic. The following two countries, Bolivia and Ecuador, had 1.5 times as many fatalities apiece.

Msemburi cites a number of possible factors, including vaccination rates as well as the timing of epidemics in various nations where COVID-19 types predominate. “This does not imply that these countries handled the pandemic badly,” she continues. He makes the speculative claim that Peru, for example, may have improved its death reporting during the epidemic, creating the impression of an increase in excess mortality.

According to him, an aging population would result in higher expected mortality and lower estimated excess mortality.

According to Msemburi, “We are continuing to make model modifications that will enhance the estimations.” 

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