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Study: 150,000 COVID Deaths Went Uncounted in Pandemic's Early Years
Key Takeaways
- AI-assisted research estimates 155,000 COVID deaths went uncounted outside hospitals in 2020 and 2021
- The official toll of 840,000 may have been undercounted by roughly 16 percent
- Rural areas and racial minority communities had the highest rates of unrecognized COVID mortality
- The findings highlight gaps in US death reporting infrastructure that remain partially unresolved
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DT Editorial Team··4 min read·via statnews.com