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Uncounted COVID Deaths Reveal a Troubling Truth About Official Death Records
Loaded on May 1, 2026
by Jo Ellen Nott
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2026, page 39
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Medical Records,
COVID-19,
Statistics/Trends,
Databases.
Location:
United States of America.
by Jo Ellen Nott
In a study led by Andrew Stokes of Boston University, researchers developed algorithms trained on hospital-verified data to audit out-of-hospital deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results, published in Science Advances, point to “critical gaps in the U.S. death investigation system.”
The study’s …
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