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BostonUniStudent t1_j6j32v8 wrote
15 million global deaths from 2021-22. I wonder what the numbers look like now, with the Chinese deaths added.
The problem is it's very difficult to get accurate numbers out of them.
Source: https://www.un.org/en/desa/149-million-excess-deaths-associated-covid-19-pandemic-2020-and-2021
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tomcat91709 t1_j6iuiiw wrote
Are the numbers all related to China's new policy?
grab-n-g0 OP t1_j6jibuz wrote
The DG's statement references deaths in the last 8 weeks. However, another WHO report states that about 73K deaths reported by China over the last 6 weeks are not included in the current counts.
WHO, Covid-19, Weekly sit-rep: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports
autotldr t1_j6ivth3 wrote
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 61%. (I'm a bot)
> GENEVA - The coronavirus remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Monday, after a key advisory panel found the pandemic may be nearing an "Inflexion point" where higher levels of immunity can lower virus-related deaths.
> ADVERTISEMENT. Tedros' comments came moments after WHO released findings of its emergency committee on the pandemic which reported that some 13.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered - with nearly 90% of health workers and more than four in five people over 60 years of age having completed the first series of jabs.
> Committee members cited "Pandemic fatigue" and the increasing public perception that COVID-19 isn't as much of a risk as it once was, leading to people to increasingly ignore or disregard health measures like mask-wearing and social distancing.
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grab-n-g0 OP t1_j6itf0j wrote
>Speaking at the opening of WHO’s annual executive board meeting, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “there is no doubt that we’re in a far better situation now” than a year ago — when the highly transmissible Omicron variant was at its peak.
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>But Tedros warned that in the last eight weeks, at least 170,000 people have died around the world in connection with the coronavirus. He called for at-risk groups to be fully vaccinated, an increase in testing and early use of antivirals, an expansion of lab networks, and a fight against “misinformation” about the pandemic.
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>“We remain hopeful that in the coming year, the world will transition to a new phase in which we reduce hospitalizations and deaths to the lowest possible level,” he said.
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>Tedros’ comments came moments after WHO released findings of its emergency committee on the pandemic which reported that some 13.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered — with nearly 90% of health workers and more than four in five people over 60 years of age having completed the first series of jabs.