A new WHO report indicates that other countries had more excess deaths that the US during the Covid pandemic

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Fri, 2022-05-06 06:40 — mike kraft

Does US really have world's highest Covid death toll? A new report suggests other countries had more excess deaths than US during the pandemic. BBC News

The US is approaching one million Covid deaths - the highest total officially recorded anywhere in the world.

But a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows several other countries recorded more deaths above their normal levels than the US over the last two years. ...

The WHO has published a report calculating every country's excess death count for 2020 and 2021.

This measure takes into account deaths not directly due to Covid, but as a consequence of the pandemic, such as people being unable to access hospitals for the care they needed.

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