The coronavirus pandemic in the US claimed at least 122,000 more lives than would be expected in a normal year, for a rise of 18 percent, says a study released Wednesday.
But this is just a national average, and the excess death rate was particularly high in virus hot spots such as New York City, which buried three times more people than usual and up to seven times as many during the peak of the pandemic, according to a week by week study carried out at Yale University and published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
What is more, throughout the first phase of the pandemic in the US the official COVID-19 death toll was widely underestimated, the statistics in this study show. States such as Texas and Arizona, which went relatively unscathed in the spring — but are now hit hard in a new virus surge — were the worst off by this measure. More than half of the excess deaths went unexplained, with no official link to the pandemic.
The official COVID-19 death toll is relatively reliable in New York, Massachusetts or Minnesota, for instance, the study shows.
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