Tracking the mortality impact of COVID19 is difficult. Real-time data is messy and there are vast differences in reporting across states. Critics have raised concerns that deaths not caused by the virus are improperly counted as COVID19. To account for this, epidemiologists started assessing “excess deaths”. In other words, how many “extra” deaths do we have in 2020 compared to the same time period in 2019?
Excess Deaths
Excess Deaths
Excess Deaths
Tracking the mortality impact of COVID19 is difficult. Real-time data is messy and there are vast differences in reporting across states. Critics have raised concerns that deaths not caused by the virus are improperly counted as COVID19. To account for this, epidemiologists started assessing “excess deaths”. In other words, how many “extra” deaths do we have in 2020 compared to the same time period in 2019?