COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of 'overcounts'

By Andrew Stokes, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University
Dielle Lundberg, Research Assistant in the Department of Global Health, Boston University
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Yea-Hung Chen, Research Data Specialist in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.

Read complete article

~	Jobseekers get about $345 less than pensioners each fortnight. This gap is hurting, and is set to widen without change

~	What is childhood dementia? And how could new research help?

~	Species living closely together in symbiosis is far older and way more common than you might think

~	We’re all feeling the collective grief and trauma of violence against women – but this is the progress we have made so far

~	Getting to know Alexandra Philbin: A Q&A with an Irish language activist

~	Trump trial reveals details about how the former president thinks about, and exploits, the media

~	Why the potential for another Donald Trump presidency is making Iran very nervous

~	Labor facing heavy defeat in Queensland, but faring better in federal polls

~	We reconstructed landscapes that greeted the first humans in Australia around 65,000 years ago

~	What do we lose when our old suburbs disappear?