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

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

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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