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Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 17:30
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Bloomberg
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In their study published in the Lancet last week, researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington pointed to a lack of testing and unreliable mortality data to explain the discrepancy with official estimates of roughly 5.9 million deaths. They found Covid drove a 17% jump in deaths worldwide.
“At the global level, this is quite the biggest mortality shock since the Spanish flu,” Christopher J.L. Murray, the director of the Seattle-based institute, told me.
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