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COVID-19 death toll reaches 5 million worldwide
FOX ^ | 10-31-2021 | A.P.

Posted on 11/01/2021 5:53:48 AM PDT by Phoenix8

The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.

Together, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil — all upper-middle- or high-income countries — account for one-eighth of the world’s population but nearly half of all reported deaths. The U.S. alone has recorded over 740,000 lives lost, more than any other nation.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; deaths; pandemic
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Yet no thorough unbiased investigation has been done in China to accurately determine its origin. Putting the world in danger for a new disease emanating from the same source.

Imagine it coming from here, or Brazil or Japan or France and not having an open and complete study 5 million lives and almost 3 years later.

1 posted on 11/01/2021 5:53:48 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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I still question the 740k number for the US. Last time I checked China had less than 10k deaths. No way.


2 posted on 11/01/2021 5:55:45 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Phoenix8

“Yeah, 5 million died. That’s the ticket. Yeah. And they all had pretzels hanging from their ears. Yeah. Big salty pretzels. That’s the ticket.”


3 posted on 11/01/2021 5:57:07 AM PDT by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
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And people who were going to die anyway... people close to the end, are tallied in this number to make us afraid. Just lost another friend, he had been on oxygen and had a live in nurse for the last 12 months. But his death was categorized as Covid. I think it could have said, ‘death, he just ran out of gas!’


4 posted on 11/01/2021 5:57:54 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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I don’t believe these numbers.

First, the tests to verify one actually has the CCPvirus have been heavily flawed resulting in massive false positives. Second, there is a significant difference between dying with the CCPvirus and dying from the CCPvirus. Third, governments are motivated to fraudulently inflate both the numbers who actually have the virus and the numbers of those who died from the virus.


5 posted on 11/01/2021 5:58:21 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Phoenix8

All the CoupFlu stats are crap.


6 posted on 11/01/2021 5:59:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Phoenix8

5 million? I thought half the world was going to go.


7 posted on 11/01/2021 6:01:53 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Phoenix8

Who would have thought that presumption can be so deadly?


8 posted on 11/01/2021 6:03:11 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Phoenix8

It is almost as if we’re in the middle of a war but the Biden admin doesn’t want to ‘alarm’ Americans that they are in the middle of a germ warfare scenario.

Problem is, it’s not a war. The whole thing started because China was sloppy with their biowarfare experiments and one of them got let loose on the world. They don’t want to own up to it and the Biden admin doesn’t want to hold their feet to the fire. They might actually have to hunker down on things like unfettered illegal immigration, that kind of thing.


9 posted on 11/01/2021 6:05:13 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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That’s a lot of blood on your hands, Fauci.


10 posted on 11/01/2021 6:06:21 AM PDT by OKSooner (6uild 6ack 6etter)
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There are currently 7.9 billion people worldwide.

If I've done my math correctly, (which isn't a given,) 5,000,000/7,900,000,000 x 100 = 0.063% death rate.

11 posted on 11/01/2021 6:06:44 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ealgeone

Well they are communist, They control by power not any sort of Democratic process. Thus image of being strong and infallible is much more important than in more free countries. Admitting they have…1/2 million(?) deaths caused by a lab modified superbug they accidentally (maybe) let go shows they are not all powerful.


12 posted on 11/01/2021 6:07:08 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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How about bioterrorism on a planetary scale?

The timing was perfect, for them.

13 posted on 11/01/2021 6:07:37 AM PDT by OKSooner (6uild 6ack 6etter)
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Compared to 50 million dead in 1918's Spanish Flu, Covid 19 is a piker...

The Flu Pandemic of 1918

Before COVID-19, the most severe pandemic in recent history was the 1918 influenza virus, often called “the Spanish Flu.” The virus infected roughly 500 million people—one-third of the world’s population—and caused 50 million deaths worldwide (double the number of deaths in World War I). In the United States, a quarter of the population caught the virus, 675,000 died, and life expectancy dropped by 12 years. With no vaccine to protect against the virus, people were urged to isolate, quarantine, practice good personal hygiene, and limit social interaction.

14 posted on 11/01/2021 6:09:23 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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“COVID-19 death toll reaches 5 million worldwide”

IOW, the world had been dying of Covid at a rate of roughly 0.03% per annum, somewhat less than the typical rate for other respiratory diseases combined. Prophylactics have since been deployed worldwide to mitigate its severity, and the virus is running out of people to infect.


15 posted on 11/01/2021 6:16:12 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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Remember the CDC said 94% of all the Covid deaths had 2 or more co-morbidities. For instance, cancer, heart disease, motorcycle accidents, gun shots... In order to push up the death count. Only 6% is from Covid 19 alone. So the real death count is a little over 40k.

Once the jabs came out the CDC does not count the jabs until 2 weeks after the jab. Many people died within the 2 weeks and they are considered not vaccinated. Furthermore, those that are considered vaccinated and die. We are being told it has nothing to do with the vaccine.

Now if you look overall deaths in the United States year. Word is that it is up 5 fold this year. Most say it’s because of the jabs and not Covid. Yet I have heard the CDC is saying most deaths have nothing to do with the jabs.


16 posted on 11/01/2021 6:18:35 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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just talked to EMT recently he mentioned a shooting death tallied as covid and confirmed instead of the usual high number of flu transport calls, in the last year they had zero flu but loads of covid transport calls.

numbers are all propaganda for the fearful/unthinking to follow.


17 posted on 11/01/2021 6:20:35 AM PDT by b4me (Repeated lies does Not equal TRUTH. )
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It’s actually the death toll from the lethal injections, or more than likely a fraction of the deaths that have occurred and will occur in the near future.


18 posted on 11/01/2021 6:23:21 AM PDT by ForbesFan
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To: Alas Babylon!

At a time when the world population was less than 2 billion, compared to almost 8 billion today.


19 posted on 11/01/2021 6:24:25 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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Subtract the people who died with a few strands of virus in their noses, and people who died from an undetermined cause and who were considered to have covid.


20 posted on 11/01/2021 6:30:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Made a Let's Go Brandon! face mask. Showing my disdain for the pope's new squeeze. )
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