There may be more than 15,000 ‘excess deaths’ linked to coronavirus in the US, study suggests
April 28, 2020 / By Chris Ciaccia | Fox News
The U.S. may have underreported the number of people who died from the coronavirus pandemic by as many as 15,000 people as late as April 4, a newly published study suggests.
The research, which has not yet been peer-reviewed and is available to read on the Medrxiv repository, notes there was a “substantial variability” in the deaths reported because of COVID-19 and the “estimated burden of excess deaths due to [pneumonia and influenza].”
“Excess P&I deaths provide a conservative estimate of COVID-19 burden and indicate that COVID-19-related deaths are missed in locations with inadequate testing or intense pandemic activity,” the researchers wrote.
According to an investigation from the Washington Post and Yale University, there were 15,4000 “excess deaths” from March 1 to April 4. By that date, just 8,128 deaths were linked to COVID-19.
As of Tuesday morning, there were more than 211,000 deaths linked to COVID-19 around the world. Of those, more than 56,000 have occurred in the U.S.
