Study: COVID Deaths 3X Higher Than Official Count

Nature Magazine reports:

The number of people who have died because of the COVID-19 pandemic could be roughly three times higher than official figures suggest, according to a new analysis. The analysis, published on 10 March in The Lancet, says that the true number of lives lost to the pandemic by 31 December 2021 was close to 18 million.

That far outstrips the 5.9 million deaths that the study says were reported to various official sources for the same time period. The difference is down to significant undercounts in official statistics due to delayed and incomplete reporting and a lack of data in dozens of countries.

Read the full article. The abstract is here.

A new study (this one peer-reviewed, fwiw) reaffirms what earlier work has found: excess deaths during pandemic 3x higher than official COVID deaths. By @davidneiladam https://t.co/IjZYFXdYhy

— Richard Van Noorden (@Richvn) March 11, 2022