Dying at home, lack of healthcare contribute to COVID's hidden death toll, study finds

Dying at home, lack of healthcare contribute to COVID's hidden death toll, study finds

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210913135759.htm

Now, a new study from Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has identified healthcare factors associated with excess deaths that have not been assigned to COVID-19 at the county level across the US.

Published in the journal JAMA Network Open, the study found that a greater proportion of excess deaths not reflected in COVID-19 death counts occurred in counties with reduced access to health insurance and primary care services, as well as in counties with more deaths that occurred at home.