ElizabethDec 20, 2022
Max Roser

The WHO’s estimates of the excess mortality in the COVID pandemic got published in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05522-2

The WHO estimates 14.8m excess deaths in 2020 and 2021.

This is quite similar to other estimates (e.g. the weekly updated estimates produced by The Economist https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?uniformYAxis=0&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28estimates%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=false&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~OWID_WRL).

The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature

Msemburi et al. describe how the World Health Organization has estimated the excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, by month and for 2020 and 2021, and analyse their estimates across the WHO member states, with 14.83 million global excess deaths estimated.

Nature
Dec 19, 2022 at 11:48pmWeb
Show threadGiraffe Slava 🇺🇸🇺🇦Dec 20, 2022
@maxroser this is so tragic.
Show threadscottDec 20, 2022
@maxroser where does that rank among historic pandemics?
Show threadtom4okstateDec 20, 2022

@maxroser just tonight I heard about a seemingly healthy 40 year old woman I knew for years dying suddenly of a cardiac event.

No direct evidence it was covid and obviously tragic unexpected deaths happened before, still, in this covid world you're left wondering.

Show threadJustin LindDec 20, 2022

@maxroser
Jaw dropping, and heart breaking, data about the toll of COVID-19 through the end of 2021.

It’s almost impossible to wrap one’s mid around the magnitude of it, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

Show threadDarryl CousinsDec 20, 2022
@maxroser @thoughtfulnz I wept this morning for the suffering in China and I wonder now what the current events there will do to these excess mortality numbers.
Show threadMatthew3814Dec 21, 2022
@maxroser and to think that a lot of them were preventable