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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

Tim Harford looks at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll

The World Health Organisation recently released some new estimates of the global death toll of the pandemic. But the figures for a few countries have caused controversy. Tim Harford speaks to Professor Jon Wakefield, who worked on the analysis - and Indian data journalist Rukmini S about the debate that’s erupted in India over the figures.

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