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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNPR: New Study Estimates More Than 900,000 People Have Died Of COVID-19 In U.S.
Some DUers have been warning us that the numbers
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/06/994287048/new-study-estimates-more-than-900-000-people-have-died-of-covid-19-in-u-s
A new study estimates that the number of people who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is more than 900,000, a number 57% higher than official figures.
Worldwide, the study's authors say, the COVID-19 death count is nearing 7 million, more than double the reported number of 3.24 million.
The analysis comes from researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, who looked at excess mortality from March 2020 through May 3, 2021, compared it with what would be expected in a typical nonpandemic year, then adjusted those figures to account for a handful of other pandemic-related factors.
The final count only estimates deaths "caused directly by the SARS-CoV-2 virus," according to the study's authors. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19.
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No words - more here
http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-reported-covid-19-deaths
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)It's hard to be locked up with other people for months without cracking up and some folks might have wanted the checks to keep coming.
niyad
(112,434 posts)Celerity
(42,652 posts)spanone
(135,633 posts)malaise
(267,808 posts)Lots of so called leaders made this much worse than it needed to be
diehardblue
(10,997 posts)consideration the toll COVID 19 had on the workforce..
pandr32
(11,447 posts)This is the result of malfeasance, corruption, and indifference. If a certain someone didn't look at skimming into his own pockets as the only reason to act hundreds of thousands of people would still be with us.
Stallion
(6,473 posts)closely followed by Texas
malaise
(267,808 posts)DeathSentence will be exposed again
Delmette2.0
(4,142 posts)I can't get the link to copy, sorry. It can tank a minute or 2 or 3 to load, there is lot of details. Scroll down to the end with the spreadsheet with every country. The USA link has every state.
Stallion
(6,473 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)but, their numbers do seem a little bit higher than the official numbers.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,804 posts)it's not over!
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Not far off and sooner than I thought.
kimbutgar
(20,876 posts)Florida firing that data analyst and then trying to arrest her in her home comes to mind. And you know those mountain states are also bad.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Last edited Sun May 9, 2021, 07:32 AM - Edit history (1)
... this nightmare. Trump got rid of all of that stuff because it was, "the black guy's idea."
^^^^^^
Botany
(70,291 posts)We and the world should not be going through with this crap. China although hardly blameless
isolated the C-19 virus and sequenced its genome which they gave to to the W.H.O. who gave
that data to some German Scientists who then developed a perfectly good test for C-19 which
Trump rejected in order to make money with his own test kit that did not work.
Never forget that Vietnam with 90 million people and real close to China has had a total of 35
deaths from C-19. They followed science and wore masks.
Russia and Trump helped to stoke these Ohio anti mask anti science dumb fucks fears.
The truth
The insurrectionist in chief should be charged for genocide
Hekate
(90,189 posts)femmedem
(8,187 posts)He was only in his mid-fifties but had pre-existing conditions made worse by the virus. He wasn't officially counted.
I knew another man with no pre-existing conditions who suddenly developed untreatable pneumonia. He tested negative--but during that same period, a woman I know who developed pneumonia tested negative twice before testing positive.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)And the current administration has no reason to hold it back, does it? This is CLEARLY the fault of the incredibly bad response by He Who Should Never Be Named.
iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,419 posts)IHME has had issues with their modeling for a year, now.
The actuarial community at the big insurers have been consistent the the numbers are around 20% higher than reported. That would bring us up to around 700,000.
This model makes some awfully broad assumptions & some less than scientific hunches.
They're the only ones reporting numbers this high, and given their wild swings & constant revisions last spring to early fall, I see no reason to believe IHME are the only group getting it right.
Yes, consensus appears to be reached that the reported numbers are too low. But, >900k is an aberration.
malaise
(267,808 posts)Prof
Celerity
(42,652 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215410853
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215410853#post4
Celerity
(42,652 posts)malaise
(267,808 posts)We're all trying to keep busy but we want to return to normal life
Celerity
(42,652 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Research will continue and, as data accumulate and improve (they're still having to work with Trump-era and red-state data), agreement will tighten.
Scrivener7
(50,773 posts)For that reason, for the early months of the pandemic, they were Donny Bodybags's favorite counter, and they were the source that he used to insist, "It's no worse than the flu." It was the source he used to justify doing NOTHING for months.
IHME is the group whose irresponsible numbers are the reason we have a death toll higher than any other country.
IHME is crap.