Deaths from all causes — not just Covid-19 — are up since the pandemic started, a CDC report found.
By Julia Belluz@juliaoftoronto Oct 21, 2020, 10:10am EDT
The official Covid-19 mortality figures might be dramatically underestimating the real deathtoll of the pandemic in the US, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
From late January to early October, nearly 300,000 “excess deaths” occurred in America, the report authors estimate. That’s about a third more than the 216,025 coronavirus deaths the US reported in the same period.