Covid excess deaths

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A very distinguished team has published a new estimate of total covid pandemic deaths in the USA

 Estimating Under-recognized COVID-19 Deaths, United States, March 2020-May 2021 using an Excess Mortality Modelling Approach

 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(21)00011-9/fulltext#

 
We estimated that 766,611 deaths attributable to COVID-19 occurred in the United States from March 8, 2020—May 29, 2021. Of these, 184,477 (24%) deaths were not documented on death certificates. Eighty-two percent of unrecognized deaths were among persons aged ≥65 years; the proportion of unrecognized deaths were 0•24–0•31 times lower among those 0–17 years relative to all other age groups. More COVID-19–attributable deaths were not captured during the early months of the pandemic (March–May 2020) and during increases in SARS-CoV-2 activity (July 2020, November 2020—February 2021).
ed:July 13, 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2021.100019