WHO: Monthly Covid19 deaths remain around 10K

  • 8 months ago
WHO: Monthly Covid19 deaths remain around 10K

WHO's Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove reports approximately 10,000 monthly global COVID-19 deaths, emphasizing that this figure, based on data from 50 countries, likely underestimates the true count as some nations do not report deaths.

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Transcript
00:00 We still have around 10,000 deaths per month.
00:03 And that's only data from 50 countries.
00:07 Among those 10,000 deaths reported in December,
00:10 more than half were reported from the United States of America,
00:14 a thousand from Italy.
00:15 So we are missing deaths in countries from around the world.
00:20 Because countries aren't reporting deaths doesn't mean that they're not happening.
00:23 By the end of 2023, 31st of December, more than 7 million people
00:29 have been reported to WHO as having died from COVID-19.
00:34 We know that that number is certainly higher.
00:37 So we expect that the actual true number is at least three times higher.
00:43 So those 7 million deaths are COVID only.
00:47 Which is...
00:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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