Unpublished, statistics include indirect causes related to deaths, such as overload in health systems
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The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic caused some 22.1 million excess deaths worldwide between 2020 and 2023, a figure that triples the approximately 7 million official deaths recorded by the disease. The data is part of the report “Global Health Statistics 2026: Monitoring [...] The WHO entry reveals that COVID-19 caused 22.1 million deaths, three times what was officially reported was first published in Inform…