Researchers calculate that there were 122,300 more deaths in the U.S. in March, April and May this year than are typically seen during that three-month period.
COVID-19 has killed more than 100,000 people in the U.S., but some are more vulnerable than others. These charts show how Americans have been affected.Daniel Weinberger
They started by gathering weekly death counts for each state, starting with January 2015 and ending in January 2020. Then they used that data to project what the weekly death counts would have been through the end of May 2020 if the pandemic hadn’t happened. That gave them a baseline figure of expected deaths for 48 of the 50 states, along with the District of Columbia. Next, the researchers tallied the actual number of reported deaths in each state between March 1 and May 30.
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