Global official reports by the end of 2021 show that 6 million people have died directly from COVID-19. But scientists estimate in a newly published study that, since the beginning of 2020, there have been at least 18 million more deaths than usual in two years.
Part of this increased mortality may have been omitted from official calculations due to a lack of diagnostic or reporting resources. But some deaths can be attributed to other indirect effects of the pandemic, such as lack of access to healthcare and economic turmoil. Excessive mortality is "a much more accurate measure of the actual impact of a pandemic" due to the widespread problems of understating the direct deaths associated with COVID-19, said Haidong Wang, specialist in demographics at the Washington University...
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