The World Health Organization said Thursday that new estimates show that the full death toll associated either directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic between Jan. 1 of 2020 and Dec. 31 of 2021 is about 14.9 million people. That number compares with the tally provided by Johns Hopkins University on Thursday of 6.24 million.
The estimate is of excess mortality in the period, calculated as the difference between the number of deaths that occurred and the number that would be expected in a non-pandemic year, based on data from earlier years.
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