[영어기사/The Week] 미국이 사망자수를 줄이다? (Research suggests official coronavirus death toll in U.S. is far lower than reality)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/02/excess-deaths-during-covid-19/?arc404=true

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단어정리

death toll: 사망자수

excess death: 초과사망

certificate: 증서,증명서

indicate: 나타내다

필사리뷰

Research suggests official coronavirus death toll in U.S. is far lower than reality

 An analysis of federal data conducted by a research team led by the Yale School of Public Health found the United States recorded an estimated 37,100 excess deaths during the coronavirus pandemic throughout the March and the first two weeks of April. That's nearly 13,500 more than are attributed to COVID-19 during that same period, The Washington Post reports.

The country passed 64,000 coronavirus deaths Friday, but Dan Weinberger, a Yale professor of epidemiology who led the analysis, said his team's estimates indicate the true toll could be "in the a range of one and a half times higher". The analysis is based on death certificates compiled by states and sent to the National Center for Health Statistics, which often takes weeks to count a death.