{"id":8085,"date":"2022-06-11T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8085"},"modified":"2022-06-11T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:16:54","slug":"how-many-people-have-died-from-the-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8085","title":{"rendered":"How many people have died from the Covid-19 crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/data\/stories\/global-excess-deaths-associated-with-covid-19-january-2020-december-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Health Organization<\/a>&nbsp;(WHO) on Thursday released its estimate of global mortality from the Covid-19 pandemic: 14.9 million deaths, from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That tally is the number of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid19\/excess_deaths.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">excess deaths<\/a>\u201d compared to a baseline of expected deaths in a world without Covid-19. This number includes not just the people who died from the virus, but also those who passed away in the ensuing chaos as hospitals filled up and workplaces shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a stunning snapshot of the sweeping devastation the Covid-19 pandemic unleashed around the world, showing that the virus wreaked havoc far beyond the infections it caused. The WHO attributed about 5.4 million deaths to the virus itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23058380\/covid-19-who-excess-death-total-toll-vaccine-variant\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23058380\/covid-19-who-excess-death-total-toll-vaccine-variant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday released its estimate of global mortality from the Covid-19 pandemic: 14.9 million deaths, from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2021.<br \/>\nThat tally is the number of \u201cexcess deaths\u201d compared to a baseline of expected deaths in a world without Covid-19. This number includes not just the people who died from the virus, but also those who passed away in the ensuing chaos as hospitals filled up and workplaces shut down.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a stunning snapshot of the sweeping devastation the Covid-19 pandemic unleashed around the world, showing that the virus wreaked havoc far beyond the infections it caused. The WHO attributed about 5.4 million deaths to the virus itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,53],"class_list":["post-8085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8086,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}