{"id":69338,"date":"2026-03-18T13:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/death-toll-at-start-of-covid-19-pandemic-likely-higher-than-us-count-study-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:57:41","slug":"death-toll-at-start-of-covid-19-pandemic-likely-higher-than-us-count-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/death-toll-at-start-of-covid-19-pandemic-likely-higher-than-us-count-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll at start of Covid-19 pandemic likely higher than US count, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding suggests as many as 155,000 deaths, likely occurring outside of hospitals, not recognized at Covid related<\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic\u2019s early death toll was much higher than the official US count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths.<\/p>\n<p>About 840,000 Covid-19 deaths were reported on death certificates in 2020 and 2021. But a group of researchers \u2013 using a form of artificial intelligence \u2013 estimate that as many as 155,000 unrecognized additional deaths likely occurred in that time outside of hospitals. That would mean about 16% of Covid-19 deaths went uncounted in those years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/covid-19-pandemic-death-toll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding suggests as many as 155,000 deaths, likely occurring outside of hospitals, not recognized at Covid related The Covid-19 pandemic\u2019s early death toll was much higher than the official US count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. About 840,000 Covid-19 deaths were reported on death certificates in 2020 &#8230; <a title=\"Death toll at start of Covid-19 pandemic likely higher than US count, study says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/death-toll-at-start-of-covid-19-pandemic-likely-higher-than-us-count-study-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Death toll at start of Covid-19 pandemic likely higher than US count, study says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}