COVID-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports show
b'Many deaths from COVID-19 go unreported because countries only report deaths that occur in hospitals or in patients with a confirmed infection.
- b'Many deaths from COVID-19 go unreported because countries only report deaths that occur in hospitals or in patients with a confirmed infection.
- However, some countries with relatively smaller epidemics saw a large increase in the death rate when accounting for unreported deaths.
- Moving forward, IHME\'s COVID-19 modeling, which forecasts the potential course of the pandemic over the next several months, will be based on these estimates of total COVID-19 deaths.
- The resulting adjusted estimates include only deaths directly due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.