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578,555 people have died from COVID-19 in the US, or maybe it's 912,345 – here's why it's hard to count

  • Written by Ronald D. Fricker Jr., Professor of Statistics and Senior Associate Dean, Virginia Tech
578,555 people have died from COVID-19 in the US, or maybe it's 912,345 – here's why it's hard to countA November 2020 memorial in Washington, D.C. consisted of thousands of flags, each planted to remember someone who died of COVID-19.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

When the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington released its estimate that COVID-19 had killed 912,345 people in the U.S. by May 6, 2021,...

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