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The staggering Covid-19 death toll reported worldwide has highlighted just how catastrophic the pandemic has been, but its true human cost is likely to be revealed as vastly larger when the World Health Organization releases its own data next week. About 5.4 million people were reported to have died of Covid-19 between January 2020 and December 2021, but the figure was “underestimated” and “problematic”, according to Steve MacFeely, WHO’s director of data and analytics. One problem was the lack of consistency in how countries measured the impact of the pandemic and assessed Covid-19 mortality, MacFeely told a webinar hosted by...
