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Covid deaths are much higher than reported
MARC VANDEPITTE writes on the worrying findings of a new study
A healthcare worker fills out paper work for a patient who died from Covid-19, in a morgue at the Samaritana Hospital in Bogota, Colombia
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
A NEW study estimates that the number of people who have died from Covid-19 is currently close to seven million. That is more than double the reported number.
The analysis comes from researchers at the University of Washington. The new figures allow us to better understand the severity of the pandemic.
Serious underestimation
To measure is to know. Especially in times of pandemics, correct measurement is very important. The figures we usually rely on for Covid deaths are those reported by the national authorities. But these now seem to be a gross underestimation of the real number.
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