The coronavirus death count in New York City may be short by thousands, a new report suggests.
The number of excess deaths can determine whether death counts are higher than they normally would be and can be used amid the COVID-19 pandemic to help determine the potential "burden of mortality" associated with it, the CDC says. Of those excess deaths, 13,831 were laboratory-confirmed coronavirus-related deaths, according to the report. Another 5,048 were counted as probable coronavirus-related deaths.
But the report says there are 5,293 excess deaths that were not accounted for as probable or confirmed coronavirus-related deaths. Confirmed and probable death counts may not include people who were not tested for the virus, those who tested falsely negative, those who were infected with the virus after being tested, those who didn't die in a health care setting and those whose doctors didn't suspect them to be infected, the report says.
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