BU professor: True death toll of COVID-19 pandemic could now be as high as 1.22 million in United States | The Boston Globe

CEID Faculty Dr. Andrew Stokes shares insights on excess mortality research as the U.S. approaches the tragic milestone of 1 million official COVID-19 deaths.

“A Boston University professor estimated Thursday that the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States could now be as high has 1.22 million, substantially higher than the nearly 1 million that official counts are approaching.

‘We passed the million mark some time ago,’ said Andrew C. Stokes, an assistant professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health.

He said the additional deaths in his count reflected deaths from COVID-19 that were not recorded due to ‘pervasive underreporting,’ as well as deaths caused by ‘indirect mechanisms’ such as interruptions in health care, people delaying care, and economic hardship and food insecurity.”

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