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U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to COVID-19

By The Washington Post  
   April 27, 2020

In the early weeks of the coronavirus epidemic, the United States recorded an estimated 15,400 excess deaths, nearly two times as many as were publicly attributed to covid-19 at the time, according to an analysis of federal data conducted for The Washington Post by a research team led by the Yale School of Public Health.

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