Southern states have higher rates of unreported COVID-19-related deaths than other regions of the country, according to a new study.
The study, led by Andrew Stokes, a professor of global health at Boston University School of Public Health, analyzed deaths in 787 U.S. counties that had more than 20 COVID-19 fatalities from Feb. 1 to Oct. 17, 2020. Georgia accounted for more than 50 of the counties studied. (Georgia has a high number of counties — second most among the states.)
In the new study, the term “excess deaths’’ compares fatalities to recent population benchmarks.
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