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by tpmx 2058 days ago
https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

> 32.7 million [24.8 million–42.2 million] people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic.

Hopefully covid-19 could end up causing ~10x fewer deaths.
1 comments
asveikau 2058 days ago
When you put it that way, my comment looks pretty insensitive for trying to hedge. Of course HIV/AIDS counts for this!
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tpmx 2058 days ago
I didn't intend to put you on the spot. I was equally surprised when I looked up the numbers. I knew HIV/AIDS death numbers were bad, but not that bad.

And as an FYI, from the same UN site (abridged): Yearly HIV/AIDS deaths have been reduced by 60% since the peak in 2004. In 2019: 690k deaths. In 2004: 1.7M deaths.

Things weren't necessarily better in the past.

Technology and science developments help! It's not all tech gloom.

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