True number of Covid deaths in the US likely undercounted, experts say

Many of the deaths aren't counted in the official Covid tally because they happen months after infections, expert says

The true number of deaths from the Covid pandemic in the US is likely being undercounted, due to the long-lasting and little-understood effects of Covid infection and other deadly complications that surged during the past two years.

We are seeing right now the highest death rates we have ever seen in the history of this business," J Scott Davison, CEO of insurance company OneAmerica, told journalists on 30 December.