The Economist used global excess deaths to arrive at the true death toll from the pandemic with a 95% confidence interval.

"Although the official number of deaths caused by #COVID19 is now 7m, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 27.5m people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.8m and 30.8m additional deaths."

#Covid #SarsCov2 #GlobalExcessDeaths

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

The pandemic’s true death toll

Our daily estimate of excess deaths around the world

The Economist
Paywall free version of the article:
https://archive.ph/jUajT#selection-1105.376-1121.19

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Very helpful! Thx. Followed 🥰

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So if that had happened in one country then any country smaller than Australia would just be gone. Number 55.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)

Nope. Still can't get my head around that. Too many people.

List of countries by population (United Nations) - Wikipedia

@MadhouseMuse Is this broken for anyone else? Maybe archive ph is broken? I just get an endless captcha in Firefox and Chrome on Android.