More adults have died from dementia during the Covid-19 pandemic

More people have died from the pandemic than initially reported. Looking at the excess deaths in the US during the first five months of the Pandemic we find excess deaths as a result of heart disease, alzheimer's and dementia not directly related to coronavirus.

Publisher: Quartz | Author: Katherine Ellen Foley

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mortality data
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2020-10-19 (Modified: 2023-11-28)

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