In the US, deaths from COVID-19, which have not been previously reported, are increasingly being detected. The underreporting of mortality became known after reconciliation of data, reports The Wall Street Journal.
In particular, during the check in the state of Ohio, four thousand additional deaths were revealed, and in the state of Indiana – about one and a half thousand. Also, a rediscount of deaths from COVID-19 was carried out in the states of Virginia, Minnesota and Rhode Island.
The problem is that the authorities tried to report deaths in real time, so the statistics did not include cases identified later during the medical examination. These “truncated” rates were used for the morbidity and mortality trackers of government agencies and Johns Hopkins University.
Earlier, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed the unprecedented loss of life from COVID-19. According to him, more than 30 thousand residents of the city have died from the coronavirus in a year. The head of the city noted that more New Yorkers have died from COVID-19 than in World War II, Vietnam, Hurricane Sandy and the 9/11 attacks combined.