To date, the number of fatalities from COVID-19 alone total around 200,000, meaning that another 100,000 people have died this year that shouldn’t have. These fatalities are likely a combination of deaths directly caused by COVID-19 that were either missed because the person wasn’t tested or didn’t seek medical attention, and deaths from other causes that happened due to the chaos of the global pandemic. Patients might have had their medical care interrupted, or chose not to seek medical attention when they needed it in fear of getting infected with the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.
