> The "excess deaths" surpassed COVID-19 fatalities in those states by a combined 4,563 people. Experts suspect that unconfirmed coronavirus cases could be responsible for some of those deaths, but it might also be related to a shift in other causes of death. For example, some doctors speculate people might be dying from illnesses from which they would normally recover because the pandemic has changed access to health care.
> “Our ER, as well as many others, are seeing far fewer patients because people are scared to come in.”
There are graphs.
This has added to a lot of the confusion and misinformation surrounding coronavirus response, since people are hearing that hospitals and ERs around the country are seeing fewer patients -- dramatically fewer, in some cases -- and conflating that with the coronavirus risk being unexpectedly low, which isn't true.
> The "excess deaths" surpassed COVID-19 fatalities in those states by a combined 4,563 people. Experts suspect that unconfirmed coronavirus cases could be responsible for some of those deaths, but it might also be related to a shift in other causes of death. For example, some doctors speculate people might be dying from illnesses from which they would normally recover because the pandemic has changed access to health care.
> “Our ER, as well as many others, are seeing far fewer patients because people are scared to come in.”
There are graphs.
This has added to a lot of the confusion and misinformation surrounding coronavirus response, since people are hearing that hospitals and ERs around the country are seeing fewer patients -- dramatically fewer, in some cases -- and conflating that with the coronavirus risk being unexpectedly low, which isn't true.