A man who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is wrapped in a body bag at the United Memorial Medical Center’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) intensive care unit in Houston, Texas, U.S., June 29, 2020.
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France 24: Pandemic caused 18 pc rise in deaths in US: study
The coronavirus pandemic in the US claimed at least 122,000 more lives than would be expected in a normal year, for a rise of 18 percent, says a study released Wednesday.
But this is just a national average, and the excess death rate was particularly high in virus hot spots such as New York City, which buried three times more people than usual and up to seven times as many during the peak of the pandemic, according to a week by week study carried out at Yale University and published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Update #1: Official U.S. coronavirus death toll is ‘a substantial undercount’ of actual tally, Yale study finds (CNBC)
Update #2: U.S. COVID-19 deaths likely higher than reported, study shows (Reuters)
WNU Editor: I live in Quebec, and the percentages are also the same. The Yale study is here .... Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020 (JAMA)
