Report: COVID May Have Killed Way More Americans Than We Think
A new analysis found that during the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, the number of excess deaths in the US far exceeded the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19, according to The Washington Post.
In other words, the numbers suggest that the pandemic’s death toll could be vastly higher than what the government has been reporting so far.
Official records collected from the beginning of March through early April and released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) were analyzed by a team of Yale School of Public Health experts. The analysis showed an estimated 15,4000 excess deaths — twice as many as those attributed to the deadly coronavirus at the time.
The excess deaths, however, can’t directly be blamed on the virus itself, as the number likely includes those who didn’t seek medical treatment for other illnesses due to fear of catching the coronavirus at a medical treatment facility. Other factors, including statistical variabilities and fluctuations in different causes of death, could also explain the difference.
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