True global COVID-19 death toll estimated to be three times higher than reported

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The actual death toll of the pandemic is estimated to be over 18 million, far more than the global tallies report, indicating the true aftermath of devastating surges since 2020.

A group of COVID-19 modeling experts at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington projects in the first peer-reviewed global estimates that the reported global death toll of roughly 6 million is an undercount.

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