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The estimate is lower than one from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, which calculated in March that the pandemic had killed 18.2 million people, calling it the biggest mortality shock since the Spanish flu.

Three large peer-reviewed studies had found that India's deaths from the pandemic by September 2021 were "six to seven times higher than reported officially". A paper in The Lancet by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent global health research centre, uses subnational all-cause mortality data from 12 Indian states. 

Dr. Christopher Murray, who heads the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said although this milestone has been looming, "the fact that so many have died is still appalling."

It’s natural to see re-infection at this stage, particularly given people’s changing behaviors, like less mask-wearing and traveling more, said Dr. Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, and formerly of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Christopher Murray, um dos autores do estudo publicado pela Lancet, disse que era difícil superestimar o impacto econômico e social que o declínio na fertilidade pode ter. "Temos de reorganizar a sociedade", ele disse.

Air pollution in China caused about 1.4 million premature deaths in 2019, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study, a programme run by the University of Washington.

Dr. Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist with the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, said the timing of the test before such events is very important.

The Washington-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has observed that two-thirds of India's population was affected by Omicron in the December-January period.

In the US, only 7% of positive cases are detected, which means that case rates are 14.5% higher than reported, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

As the use of at-home tests rises, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has warned that there is potentially a huge undercount of cases because those results often don't get reported.

Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: Our models do not suggest a substantial BA.2 surge in the US.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that only 7% of positive COVID-19 cases in the US are being detected, meaning case rates are actually 14.5 times higher than officially reported. 

Christopher Murray, one of the Lancet report’s authors, said it was hard to overstate the economic and social impact the decline in fertility would have.

According to the 2019 Global Burden of Disease survey, untreated oral diseases caused people ages 50 to 74 worldwide to suffer a collective 8 million years of life “with disability” in 2019.

Mask-wearing is at its lowest level since April 2020 and for every 100 infections Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington, told The Associated Press that seven are recorded in official tallies.