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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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To: Phoenix8
Ohhh, ahhh... They want 5 million to sound like a big scary number. In global terms, it isn't.

In a typical year something like 55 to 60 million people die around the world anyway. So in the 20 odd months since the scam-demic started around 105 million people were expected to die anyway.

Therefore, even if all 5 million deaths attributed to covid were in fact caused by covid or covid was a significant contributing factor in those deaths... (and that is a very big "if" given the rather loose guidelines on what constitutes a covid death) Even if you buy all 5 million deaths, that's less than a 5% bump. That's probably almost within the normal statistical variation. Yet we've turned out economies and lives upside down, for this?

21 posted on 11/01/2021 6:36:16 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: ealgeone

“I still question the 740k number for the US”

Agreed. We’ll never know the real number considering all the deaths from other reasons being contributed to covid. No telling how low that number really is.

As for China they’re probly lying too...just in the other direction.


22 posted on 11/01/2021 6:39:17 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Phoenix8

With or from?

Asking for a friend.


23 posted on 11/01/2021 6:41:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: ealgeone

Everybody who died last year had covid.


24 posted on 11/01/2021 6:48:45 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Phoenix8

and yet they claimed Flu deaths were zero for 2020. Hmmm...


25 posted on 11/01/2021 6:52:11 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Phoenix8

5 million worldwide? Pfffft! That’s nothing. Why in the USA alone, 500 million people are killed in senseless gun violence every year. The important government and media people told me so.


26 posted on 11/01/2021 6:58:14 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Phoenix8

According to official records, 60M die each year worldwide.
Est is in 20 years 120M will die each year.


27 posted on 11/01/2021 8:59:26 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Yo-Yo

Don’t confuse Faux News with math.
Math is hard for those who were too dumb to pass basic math/science.
In college, I was considering going into Petroleum Engineering so took a Geology 101 class to see if it was interesting.
Super Simple!
Most of those taking it were Journalism majors to meet their “Science” requirement.


28 posted on 11/01/2021 9:03:39 AM PDT by Zathras
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