Study Says U.S. Covid Death Count Higher Than Previously Known but Conspicuously Ignores “Vaccines” as the Cause

(The Epoch Times)—More COVID-19 deaths occurred in the United States than were previously known, researchers said in a new paper.

The researchers said in the study, published March 18 by Science Advances, that they identified 150,000 to 160,000 likely deaths from COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 that had not been previously recognized.

Some 1.2 million deaths are attributed to COVID-19 on death certificates through May 7, 2026, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause on the death certificate in 86 percent of deaths, including 91 percent in 2020 and 66 percent in 2023, the agency says. For the remaining deaths, COVID-19 was considered a contributing cause.

Andrew Stokes, a professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, and the paper’s co-authors said they wanted to figure out how many deaths from COVID-19 authorities had missed. They used machine learning intelligence to analyze death certificates.

They trained the artificial intelligence on COVID-19 deaths in hospitals, which the researchers considered accurate, and had it predict COVID-19 deaths in settings outside of hospitals using death files from the CDC.

“These findings suggest that the US death investigation system undercounted COVID-19 deaths unevenly,” the researchers said.

A CDC spokesperson declined to comment on the study.

Listed limitations included the assumption that there were no errors in the determination of COVID-19 deaths at hospitals. Funding came from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. No competing interests were declared.

Dr. Harvey Risch, professor emeritus of epidemiology in Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, told The Epoch Times in an email that the study’s major flaw was basing the model on hospital data. Hospitals routinely did not separate deaths with COVID-19 from deaths from COVID-19.

Daniel Halperin, adjunct professor of global public health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, told The Epoch Times in an email that the paper ignored how there is evidence that some deaths were reported as from COVID-19 but were not.

“Several studies have found that, in some cases, even the majority of official COVID-19 deaths were in fact traceable to deaths from other causes; i.e., many persons who died from other causes yet who’d also recently tested positive for COVID-19 were presumptively coded as having died from the coronavirus,” Halperin said, citing research from Denmark and the United States.

Scientists and others have also found evidence that COVID-19 vaccines have caused deaths, with some death certificates listing vaccination. The authors of the new paper did not mention vaccines.

Stokes did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.

The CDC in 2023 acknowledged COVID-19 hospitalizations were being overcounted but said its COVID-19 death data only included deaths “in which COVID-19 played a meaningful role.”

Officials previously said that any deaths with COVID-19 were counted as COVID-19 deaths, although the CDC later told certifiers that “COVID-19 should not be reported on the death certificate if it did not cause or contribute to the death.”

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