LOS ANGELES - A recent study from a team of researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale suggests that the total number of U.S.
deaths from COVID-19 is likely much higher than what has been officially counted and reported. According to the study, which was published on Oct.
12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, from March 1 through Aug. 1, 1,336,561 people died of all causes in the United States, a 20% increase than the 1,111,031 deaths expected based on historical data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S.