Counterfactual Disease Burden Clock

Population

United States (≈ 333 million) World (≈ 8.1 billion)

Rates are applied uniformly to the selected population for illustration.

Total deaths so far this year

United States

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World

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Method

Counts are calculated as: annual expected burden × (fraction of the year elapsed). This is a counterfactual illustration based on historical pre-vaccine rates.