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5 years on, true counts of COVID-19 deaths remain elusive − and research is hobbled by lack of data

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National COVID-19 memorial wall for the five-year anniversary on March 11, 2025, in London, England. Andrew Aitchison/In Pictures ...
Government Technology

North Carolina Causes Nationwide Delay of Death Data

(TNS) — Missing records from North Carolina have delayed the release of federal data on causes of death across the country, information that experts say is critical to understanding the health of the ...
STAT

Maternal mortality data is murky — but the crisis faced by new moms is clear

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is focused on boys’ and men’s health: She looks into reproductive health, trending treatments, screening approaches, mental health, and everything in between. Too many new ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

CDC Presents Provisional Mortality Data for 2023 in the US

The age-adjusted death rate was 884.2 and 632.8 per 100,000 population among males and females, respectively. HealthDay News — In 2023, there was a provisional total of 3,090,582 deaths in the US, ...
Raleigh News & Observer

NC is responsible for nationwide delay of death data. How it happened, why it matters.

Missing records from North Carolina have delayed the release of federal data on causes of death across the country, information that experts say is critical to understanding the health of the American ...
Medical Xpress

Study: High excess death rates in the West for 3 years running since start of pandemic despite containment and vaccines

Excess death rates have remained high in the West for three years running since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a data analysis of 47 countries published in BMJ Public Health. This is ...
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Improving Real-World Mortality Data Quality in Oncology Research: Augmenting Electronic Medical Records With Obituary, Social Security Death Index, and Commercial Claims Data

When the enriched EMR data set was augmented with one external data set, the obituary data set provided the most additional value, followed by claims, and then SSA. The augmentation of all the data ...
The Conversation

5 years on, true counts of COVID‑19 deaths remain elusive − and research is hobbled by lack of data

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of related deaths. While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls, ...