The conversation between human and AI assistant.
[|Human|] Rewrite the two paragraphs so that the idea is expressed in less words without changing its meaning.
[|AI|] The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the economy and global society including job loss, and has been the deadliest pandemic in recent history with over a million deaths.
[|Human|] 
Rewrite the two paragraphs so that the idea is expressed in less words without changing its meaning.