{"id":14061,"date":"2025-04-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14061"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:05:21","slug":"covid-death-count-accuracy-excess-mortality-reporting-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/covid-death-count-accuracy-excess-mortality-reporting-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Determining the True Scale of COVID-19 Casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How accurate was the Covid death count? (w\/ Hank Green)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JS2rCjvjYLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The true scale of COVID-19 casualties is far more complex than official death tolls suggest. While U.S. death counts rely on subjective cause-of-death determinations, excess mortality estimates show a significantly higher number of deaths, and global figures may be underreported due to weak data systems, possibly tripling the official count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The true scale of COVID-19 casualties is far more complex than official death tolls suggest. While U.S. death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/88\/COVID-19_Outbreak_World_Map_Total_Deaths_per_Capita.svg\/2560px-COVID-19_Outbreak_World_Map_Total_Deaths_per_Capita.svg.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[7776,7767,7762,7772,7775,7773,7764,7765,7774,7766,7770,7763,7768,7118,7771,7769,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-14061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-and-body","8":"category-math-and-the-sciences","9":"tag-covid-cause-of-death-analysis","10":"tag-covid-death-certificate-limitations","11":"tag-covid-death-count-accuracy","12":"tag-covid-death-data-reliability","13":"tag-covid-deaths-and-medical-judgment","14":"tag-covid-mortality-in-india","15":"tag-covid-19-contributing-cause","16":"tag-covid-19-death-reporting","17":"tag-death-registration-system-weaknesses","18":"tag-determining-true-covid-deaths","19":"tag-excess-deaths-vs-official-count","20":"tag-excess-mortality-covid-19","21":"tag-global-covid-death-toll-estimate","22":"tag-howtown","23":"tag-pandemic-mortality-statistics","24":"tag-underreported-covid-deaths","25":"tag-youtube","26":"post_format-post-format-video","27":"cs-entry","28":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14062,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions\/14062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}