Global cost of Pandemic?

The total global cost of this pandemic must be staggering. Measured in the tens of trillions of dollars. I read that lost tourism alone was $8 trillion USD. But tourism only scratches the surface.

Here's what I could find:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e-global-south

Quote:

Public-health experts predict that, as an indirect consequence of the Covid pandemic, twice as many people around the world could be at risk of dying from malaria. There could be 400,000 extra deaths from TB in the next few years, and half a million extra deaths from HIV. Across much of the world, in short, the response to the coronavirus has ushered in a shadow pandemic. The coronavirus’s real death toll, then, has to be calculated not just in deaths from Covid, but also in deaths that would otherwise have been prevented, from malaria, TB, HIV, diabetes and more.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/developm...come-countries

Quote:

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed about 120 million people into extreme poverty over the last year in mostly low- and middle-income countries, according to estimates by World Bank researchers.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2771764
(This estimate is over a year old now, but puts the figure at $16 trillion for the US alone.)

For the whole globe it must be at least 4 or 5 times that figure. So something in the neighborhood of $60-80 trillion USD?

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