{"id":197306,"date":"2026-03-19T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/more-than-150000-uncounted-covid-19-deaths-occurred-early-in-the-pandemic-a-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:45:14","slug":"more-than-150000-uncounted-covid-19-deaths-occurred-early-in-the-pandemic-a-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/more-than-150000-uncounted-covid-19-deaths-occurred-early-in-the-pandemic-a-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 150,000 uncounted Covid-19 deaths occurred early in the pandemic, a study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/19\/health\/uncounted-covid-deaths-study\">More than 150,000 uncounted Covid-19 deaths occurred early in the pandemic, a study finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/19\/health\/uncounted-covid-deaths-study\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/19\/health\/uncounted-covid-deaths-study<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-19 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>A new study using artificial intelligence estimates that as many as 155,000 unrecognized Covid-19 deaths likely occurred outside hospitals in the US from 2020 to early 2021, which accounts for nearly 16% more deaths than officially counted. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This discrepancy suggests that those marginalized, including Hispanic people and people of color, were more likely to die undiagnosed during the pandemic, especially in the South and Southwest states like Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The lack of access to testing, particularly early in the pandemic when home testing was not widely available, likely contributed to these unnoticed deaths, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Critics argue that the antiquated death investigation system, particularly those run by coroners in non-metropolitan areas, played a central role in missing these deaths. Partisan opinions may also have influenced the testing and death reporting process.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The study\u2019s authors highlighted the importance of improving record-keeping and testing accessibility to prevent undercounting fatalities in future public health crises.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150,000 uncounted Covid-19 deaths occurred early in the pandemic, a study finds https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/19\/health\/uncounted-covid-deaths-study&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-1219749368.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-197306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197308,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197306\/revisions\/197308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}