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COVID-19 death count discrepancy

Discrepancy between officially reported COVID-19 deaths and estimates based on excess-mortality methods

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Jan 25, 2026
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what is the leading cause of death in 2025...abortion?

Claims that “abortion was the leading cause of death in 2025” rest not on a new revision of clinical mortality statistics but on tallying the number of pregnancy terminations reported by data aggregat...

Jan 27, 2026
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what percentage of people have died after taking the covid vacine

A simple, single percentage that answers “” is not available in the public datasets provided; global death dashboards track COVID deaths but do not report a straightforward fraction of vaccine recipie...

Jan 25, 2026
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What evidence disproves the claim that there was no COVID-19 pandemic?

The claim that there was no is contradicted by multiple, independent data streams: official case and death counts reported to the , large estimates of that dwarf reported deaths, widespread disruption...

Jan 6, 2026

how many people die each year

The best current estimates put global deaths each year at roughly 60–68 million people: Our World in Data reports about 63 million deaths in 2024 , the WHO’s Global Health Estimates counted roughly 68...

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