COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to government statistics.This is a huge number, but researchers say it might not be telling the whole story.In a new report published Tuesday by the Royal Society of Canada, researchers estimate that between Feb.
1 and Nov. 28, 2020, around 6,000 deaths of people aged 45 and older caused directly by COVID-19 have gone uncounted in the official statistics.
In total, around two-thirds of COVID-19’s real death toll may have been missed, the report suggests. Canada saw over 13,000 ‘excess deaths’ during 1st year of COVID-19, StatCan finds Dr.
Samir Sinha, director of geriatrics at Sinai Health and the University Health Network in Toronto, said that this report provides a “clear call to.