As if the death toll of COVID-19 weren’t bad enough, a new study estimates that the true number of U.S. fatalities linked to the pandemic is up to 28% higher than the official tally.
That means that for every 3.5 known victims of COVID-19, another American lost his or her life as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
“Official tallies likely undercount deaths due to the virus,” researchers reported Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. The extent of this undercount varies “markedly between states,” they added.
Between March 1 and May 31, the number of COVID-19 deaths reported to the National Center for Health Statistics was 95,235. But there are good reasons to suspect that figure is an undercount, the study authors explained.
https://www.latimes.com/science/sto...28-higher-than-official-count-study-estimates
That means that for every 3.5 known victims of COVID-19, another American lost his or her life as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
“Official tallies likely undercount deaths due to the virus,” researchers reported Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. The extent of this undercount varies “markedly between states,” they added.
Between March 1 and May 31, the number of COVID-19 deaths reported to the National Center for Health Statistics was 95,235. But there are good reasons to suspect that figure is an undercount, the study authors explained.
https://www.latimes.com/science/sto...28-higher-than-official-count-study-estimates
