Could significantly more have died of Corona in New York? - Communication - electronic network

The numbers so far have been frightening. Now a new investigation by the New York health authority suspects that more than 5,000 additional corona fatalities have occurred in the metropolis.

The study published on Monday then indicates a total of around 25,000 deaths in the city on the US east coast. She examined what is known as excess mortality in New York City from March 11th to May 2nd – the deviation from the assumed number of deaths during the same period in a normal year.

For the time, the agency counted 32,107 dead in New York, which corresponds to an excess mortality of 24,172. Of this number of deaths, which is above the normally expected rate, 13,831 victims have been confirmed and a further 5,048 have previously been recorded as probable Covid-19 cases. What remains is the number of 5293 deaths (22 percent) who were not assigned. These could be “directly or indirectly due to the pandemic,” it said.

According to the experts, the failure to record 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 a population of 8.5 million, was by far the hardest hit by the pandemic in North America. A survey by the state indicated that one in five New Yorkers could have been infected with the virus.

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