2020 was still very much in the projection stage, the numbers got adjusted constantly until a good representation was agreed upon.
For example, one of the first “Covid-deaths” in my area was an 87 year-old man on palliative care for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He died, they ran a post-mortem covid test on him, it came back positive. Later on, he got removed from covid death statistics as it was probably not covid that killed him.
1.6M by the end of 2020, but also 800k by the end of 2021.
Maybe God did some work after all?
Sorry I didn’t make it clear. 800k is US only, other figures (including OP) are worldwide.
2020 was still very much in the projection stage, the numbers got adjusted constantly until a good representation was agreed upon.
For example, one of the first “Covid-deaths” in my area was an 87 year-old man on palliative care for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He died, they ran a post-mortem covid test on him, it came back positive. Later on, he got removed from covid death statistics as it was probably not covid that killed him.