Corona infection without symptoms: study gives numbers - they show the extent of the pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than one million people worldwide so far.

Most of them were in the United States.

Now a study calls even higher numbers - How deadly is the virus really?

• The numbers are more drastic than ever before: Over a million people are now in the

  coronavirus pandemic *

  died.

• Not only in

  Germany

  and

  Europe

  politicians are alarmed *, because the number of cases is rising rapidly again worldwide.

• A

  British trade journal is

  now announcing new, terrifying figures.

Great Britain - The

the currently announced number of

that the

has claimed worldwide

as an “agonizing milestone”

.

Over a million people have died as a

.

The

has the most to mourn with over 205,000 deaths.

And not only there, but all over the world, the numbers continue to rise rapidly.

But the true extent of the

is said to be much worse than previously thought.

Since it began, more than 33 million people worldwide have been proven to have

The English journal

now reporting

that between 500 and 730 million people are actually infected.

This would

affect

.

Survey: Have you already been tested for the coronavirus?

One million corona infections in January - today it should be up to 730 million

The report is based on "serostudies" in which the

subjects'

tested

for

.

From the evaluation of a total of 279 anti-body studies from 19 countries, the

report concludes

that there

must have been around one million infected people

as early

.

When the

its peak

in May

, five million people worldwide fell ill every day.

According to the

,

this hitherto unimagined, frightening

is

mainly due to the fact that many of those infected are barely noticeably ill for themselves * - and so many of the people who

are infected with

the

are not infected recognized and thus cannot be registered.

If you believe the estimates of the trade journal, there are

more than four times as many infected people *

in

than previously known.

In

, the known number of infected people could even multiply 44 times.

How has the pandemic progressed — and where is it headed?

The covid numbers, explained 👇 https://t.co/3AY3oRFzkq

- The Economist (@TheEconomist) September 29, 2020

Is the coronavirus less deadly than thought?

But what can you really conclude from these findings?

It would be conceivable, for example, that the

less deadly than previously assumed.

around the world still assume that many

- especially in countries with inadequate

- were wrongly not attributed to an infection with the

.

Many people would have died of the

without having taken a test.

All those victims of the virus would then not be included in the

, summarizes the news portal OE24.

According to

,

more than a million people have died of

worldwide

since the beginning of the

.

One country stands out in terms of the numbers: the

.

While US President Donald Trump * denied the existence of the virus for weeks, even months, his country has around a fifth of all deaths recorded worldwide.

In the

, most people worldwide died from the

.

This is

evident

from figures from

.

Now back to the

thesis

: not everyone

in the US will have started treatment in

- some because they could not have afforded medical care, others because they might not have noticed that they were have the

.

In addition, not all of the

tested

for the

in the period from January to today

- so the numbers here could also be many times higher than the numbers just announced.

In

, the

still inadequate

to examine

neither the living nor

the

for a

.

The drastic corrections * that the

trying to make to the current global figures could well make sense.

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