Health-care providers are required to report cases and deaths from certain diseases, including measles, mumps and now COVID-19, to state health departments, which pass this information along to the CDC, Anderson says. The first source of death data is called case surveillance. To understand why the figures converge, even if they contain some uncertainty, it is important to know how they are collected and calculated. “We're pretty confident about the scale and order of magnitude of deaths, but we're not clear on the exact number yet,” says Justin Lessler, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The scope of the coronavirus's deadly toll is clear, even if the exact toll varies by a small fraction depending on the reporting system. The inaccurate idea that only 6 percent of the deaths were really caused by the coronavirus is “a gross misinterpretation” of how death certificates work, says Robert Anderson, chief mortality statistician at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. This number is supported by three lines of evidence, including death certificates. surpassed a quarter of a million people by November 2020. Now some facts: Researchers know beyond a doubt that the number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. Representative Roger Marshall of Kansas-now incoming senator- complained that Facebook had removed a post in which he claimed that 94 percent of COVID-19 deaths reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “were the result of 2-3 additional serious illnesses and were of advanced age.” (The tweet originated from a follower of the debunked conspiracy fantasy QAnon.) Twitter removed the post for containing false information, but fabrications such as these continue to spread. In August, President Donald Trump retweeted a post claiming that only 6 percent of these reported deaths were actually from COVID-19.
is now more than 350,000, as of the beginning of January, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.Ī persistent falsehood has been circulating on social media: the number of COVID deaths is much lower than official statistics, and therefore the danger of the disease has been overblown. * Editor's Note (1/3/21): The number of COVID deaths in the U.S.
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