{"id":349738,"date":"2022-05-05T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=349738"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:22:34","slug":"who-declares-covid-19-death-toll-nearly-15-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/who-declares-covid-19-death-toll-nearly-15-million\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares COVID-19 death toll nearly 15 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Fantasy numbers. Those who have died from other diseases because they could not be treated because of covid-related restrictions or those who have committed suicide because of the closure of their businesses are counted as victims of the virus. They couldn\u2019t be more ridiculous. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>New figures from the World Health Organization Thursday estimate that around 14.9 million people died &#8220;directly or indirectly&#8221; from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, more than double the previously reported death toll.<\/p>\n<p>The estimate is focused around &#8220;excess mortality&#8221; as a result of COVID-19, meaning deaths caused directly by the virus and indirect deaths, such as people with cancer unable to receive treatment due to overcrowded hospitals. The lack of &#8220;reliable&#8221; death reporting methods in certain countries contributed to the rise, the WHO said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/who-covid-19-death-toll-nearly-15-million-over-double-previous-estimate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10160383691414345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 Fantasy numbers. Those who have  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":349740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}