Can we learn from the COVID pandemic? If so, what can we learn from the COVID Pandemic to prevent another pandemic?
COVID has been the biggest health emergency in recent times, with over 700 million cases and nearly seven million deaths. It caused disruption across the globe and enormous pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.
In describing the death toll from the COVID Pandemic, WHO (World Health Organization) believes that the true death toll has been underreported:
On 30 January 2020 COVID-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) with an official death toll of 171. By 31 December 2020, this figure stood at 1 813 188. Yet preliminary estimates suggest the total number of global deaths attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is at least 3 million, representing 1.2 million more deaths than officially reported.
With the latest COVID-19 deaths reported to WHO now exceeding 3.4 million, based on the excess mortality estimates produced for 2020, we are likely facing a significant undercount of total deaths directly and indirectly attributed to COVID-19.
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