COVID: Excess Mortalities Two Years Later: The death toll is increasingly comparable to that of the 1918-1920 flu

ABSTRACT

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020. Two years later, it put the cumulative number of cases at about 452 million, more than 5 percent of the world's population, and the number of new infections was still averaging more than a million a day.