Covid-19 death reporting discrepancies at the state level are showing considerable differences. FMTNews Coronavirus
Medical workers wheeling bodies to a makeshift morgue at in the Brooklyn borough of New York last April.
The number of March through May deaths officially listed as due to COVID-19 was 95,235, or 28% less than that excess number. A Reuters tally for the period that includes “probable” Covid-19 deaths, was higher at 103,649. “It is possible that someone who had Covid-19 and that triggered pneumonia might have pneumonia listed as the cause of death. Whereas another jurisdiction might have Covid as the cause,” he said. “The coding for what a person died from can vary a lot from person to person and jurisdiction to jurisdiction.”
Other studies have found that coronavirus fears kept people with symptoms of heart attack or stroke away from emergency rooms, possibly contributing to increased deaths.
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