The number of people who died in the early weeks of the pandemic's grip on the US far exceeded what would be expected in a normal year - and nearly doubled the number of coronavirus deaths counted by early April, new research reveals.  Between March 1 and April 4 of this year, there were 15,400 'excess deaths', non coronavirus deaths, compared to years prior, the Yale University and Washington Post investigation found.  Only 8,128 coronavirus deaths had been recorded in the US by April 4.   The research team believed the abnormally high number of deaths likely reflects how the coronavirus killed Americans during those five weeks.  In hard-hit states like New York and New Jersey, the number of excess deaths is twice to three times higher than the number of coronavirus deaths recorded, according to the preprint of the study published on Medrxiv.org.  It comes as University of California, Berkeley, slot online researchers used data on excess deaths in Italy to predict that the Mediterranean nation's coronavirus fatality rate may be eight times greater higher than the flu's,  and estimated that 0.5 percent of infected people in New York City will die.  The number of people who died in the early weeks of the pandemic's grip on the US far exceeded what would be expected in a normal year - and nearly doubled the number of coronavirus deaths counted by early April, new research reveals Between March 1 and April 4 of this year, there were 15,400 'excess deaths', non coronavirus deaths, compared to years prior, the Yale University and Washington Post investigation found.  The research team believed the abnormally high number of deaths likely reflects how the coronavirus killed Americans during those five weeks  These compare to the Covid 19 deaths suffered across the country  Coronavirus fatality and infection rates have and will continue to shift constantly as testing for infections and antibodies - immune cells that the body generates in response to infection, whether or not someone developed symptoms - ramp up and more cases and deaths are confirmed.  In the early days of the pandemic, health officials as well as President Trump sought to quell fears by citing a comforting - if roughly calculated - statistic: coronavirus was no more deadly than the flu, slot online which kills about 0.1 percent of those infected each year.  So far in the US, more than 56,000 people have died of coronavirus in the four months since the first case was reported in late January in Washington state.  RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Coronavirus may be FAR deadlier than we think: The virus...

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