Mortality data is often out of date and hard to aggregate at the national level.
A collection of articles and papers listed below explore this issue, the ramifications, and potential solutions.
January 18, 2022
It's been two years since the start of the pandemic, but death counts from Covid-19 are still widely unknown and working out exact numbers poses a complex challenge.
November 10, 2021
Fact of Death, a new Identified Mortality Index from Veritas Data Research, provides 90% coverage for recorded US deaths
March 13, 2021
COVID-19 modeling shows death rates depend mostly on age, whereas comorbidities sharply raise chances of hospitalization in young people.
December 21, 2021
A new report shows that 32 states have seen 1% or more of their population age 65 and older die of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
September 30, 2021
The nation’s decentralized, underfunded reporting system hampers efforts to combat the coronavirus.