At the time, the authorities counted 32,107 dead New Yorkwhat one Excess mortality of 24,172 correspond. Of this number of deaths, which is above the normally expected rate, 13,831 victims were confirmed and a further 5048 had previously been recorded as probable Covid-19 cases. What remains is the number of 5,293 deaths (22 percent) who were not assigned. These could be “directly or indirectly due to the pandemic,” it said.
According to the experts, the non-recording of these suspected corona fatalities could be due, among other things, to sick people who tested false negative, died outside medical control or whose death has not yet been linked to Covid-19. New York City with its 8.5 million inhabitants was in North America by far the hardest hit by the pandemic. A poll by the state indicated that one in five New Yorkers is already using the Virus could have been infected.
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