美国有超过155,000名COVID-19死亡人数在疫情初期未被统计,主要是在农村和服务不足的地区,原因是测试限制,死因调查存在缺陷以及系统性差距. Over 155,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths were uncounted early in the pandemic, mainly in rural and underserved areas due to testing limits, flawed death investigations, and systemic gaps.

一项新的研究估计,在美国大流行初期超过155,000例COVID-19死亡人数未被计算出来,主要是在医院之外的情况,这显著提高了官方死亡人數. A new study estimates over 155,000 COVID-19 deaths went uncounted in the U.S. during the pandemic’s early months, primarily outside hospitals, raising the official death toll significantly. 通过机器学习, 研究人员发现大约16%的死亡事件被忽视了,尤其是在阿拉巴马州,俄克拉荷马州和南卡罗来纳州等农村地区. Using machine learning, researchers found that about 16% of deaths were missed, especially in rural and underserved areas like Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. 有助于这一情况的因素包括有限的家庭检测,缺乏资源的死亡调查以及没有医学培训的选定验尸官,他们可能面临政治或家庭压力而不会将COVID-19列为死因. Contributing factors included limited at-home testing, under-resourced death investigations, and elected coroners without medical training who may have faced political or family pressure not to list COVID-19 as a cause of death. 医疗保健系统的差异和过时的报告体系进一步阻碍了准确数据收集. Systemic healthcare disparities and outdated reporting systems further hindered accurate data collection.