Analysis: Half of Global Coronavirus Deaths Unreported

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/analysis-half-of-global-coronavirus-deaths-unreported/ar-BB1gqSQ8?ocid=msedgntp

Analysis: Half of Global Coronavirus Deaths Unreported
By Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder|
May 6, 2021, at 1:10 p.m.


The real count of global deaths caused by the coronavirus is more than double the number officially reported, according to a new analysis.


Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation analyzed excess mortality numbers and found about 6.9 million global fatalities from the virus. The current count reported by Johns Hopkins University's COVID-19 dashboard is over 3.2 million deaths.
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The analysis found that the U.S. still has the highest death toll of any country. But instead of the country's official toll of nearly 580,000 lives lost, it is actually over 900,000, according to the analysis. That number would put the U.S. well over the death toll from the 1918 flu pandemic, which was estimated to be about 675,000 lives.

Murray detailed reasons for why countries are underreporting coronavirus deaths, including missing cases unintentionally as health care systems come under pressure and lack of adequate testing to identify COVID-19-caused deaths.

But some countries have such a large disparity in the numbers that "there likely is something else going on – something around either coding practice by physicians or recommendations on the statistical front," Murray said.

Researchers performed the analysis by calculating excess mortality, which is the number of deaths beyond what would be expected based on pre-pandemic trends. They adjusted the excess deaths to account for certain factors like the impact of decreased access to health care during the pandemic and lower traffic deaths due to less mobility.
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[nitpicker]

1. I honestly don't believe they adjusted enough to account for indirect deaths

A number of which may have been due to people losing their health insurance as well as their jobs and thus not getting the medicine/ care that they needed. Plus the general stresses helping to push blood pressure up and leading to strokes/etc. And FOGI (fear of going in) causing those who could afford it to delay screenings/tests/etc.

In the US, I could agree with an estimate of 750K dead so far, but I don't think all the excess deaths are directly due to COVID-19.

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2. been saying this til i'm hoarse.

i bet a trumpkin that we would hit a million.
his bet? 20-30k. this was about a yr ago. i specified 1 yr.
i considered myself the winner when we hit 500k.
needless to say, he refuses to pay up.

but i've said for months that there were nearly twice as many dead as the official count.

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3. I'm not surprised. rump didn't want to let cruise ships dock back into this Country because he

was afraid of increasing the known COVID 19 numbers. Idiot, he did this to our own citizens, forcing them to stay on the cruise ships until what??? I'll never forget that he did this to American citizens, whether or not they had Covid or not.