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US sees 20% more deaths than expected this year, most due to Covid-19, research finds – CNN

During the coronavirus pandemic so far, there were 20% more deaths than would normally be expected from March 1 through August 1 in the United States — with Co…

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(CNN)During the coronavirus pandemic so far, there were 20% more deaths than would normally be expected from March 1 through August 1 in the United States — with Covid-19 officially accounting for about two-thirds of them, according to new research published Monday in the medical journal JAMA.
“Although total US death counts are remarkably consistent from year to year, US deaths increased by 20% during March-July 2020,” according to the research, authored by Dr. Steven Woolf and colleagues at …

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