New Study Estimates More Than 900000 People Have Died Of COVID-19 In U.S. - NPR

Medical workers wait to vaccinate people at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic last month in Hollandale, Miss.

Researchers estimated dramatic undercounts in countries such as India, Mexico and Russia, where they said the official death counts are some 400,000 too low in each country.

Researchers at UW ultimately concluded that the extra deaths not directly caused by COVID-19 were effectively offset by the other reductions in death rates, leaving them to attribute all of the net excess deaths to the coronavirus.

Researchers estimate more than 400,000 people have died of COVID-19 in India than has been officially reported.

Researchers estimate more than 400,000 people have died of COVID-19 in India than has been officially reported.

Experts are in agreement that official reports of COVID-19 deaths undercount the true death toll of the virus.

Because of that, many academics have sought to estimate a true COVID-19 death rate to understand better how the disease spreads.

While that team similarly found the number of excess deaths far exceeded the official COVID-19 death toll, it disagreed that the gap could be blamed entirely on COVID-19 and not other causes.

Other researchers applauded the UW study, calling the researchers' effort to produce a global model important, especially in identifying countries with small reported outbreaks but larger estimates of a true death toll, which could indicate the virus is spreading more widely than previously thought

Researchers at UW also released an updated forecast for the COVID-19 death count worldwide, estimating that roughly 2.5 million more people will die of COVID-19 between now and Sept