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		niceworkbuddy on April 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Europe sleepwalked into the coronavirus crisis I think you are right, however prepositions are quite tricky for those whom English language is not mother tongue. In Polish we could say "on": eg. "12,428 people have now died on COVID-19".

TeMPOraL on April 2, 2020 [–]

I don't think that was GP's point. "From" seems absolutely correct. Using "with" would mean that the number refers to people who died while having COVID-19; using "from" means COVID-19 was the cause of death.

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