People spend time at the National Mall in Washington D.C., the United States, May 6, 2021. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)
"... I think there's no doubt that we are and have been undercounting," said Anthony Fauci, top U.S. infectious disease expert.
The United States has undercounted the number of deaths caused by COVID-19, Anthony Fauci, top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday.
"You know, the model says that it's a significant amount, as you mentioned correctly, 900,000. That's a bit more than I would have thought the undercounting was, but, you know, sometimes the models are right on line, sometimes they're a bit off," Fauci said in a TV programme, responding to a question as to whether he believes the true death toll is as high as suggested by a new study from the University of Washington.
The study suggested that the total number of U.S. deaths could be estimated at more than 905,000.
"But I think there's no doubt that we are and have been undercounting. What that tells us is something that we've known. You know, we're living through a historic pandemic, the likes of which we haven't seen in over a hundred years," Fauci said.
The United States reported a total of 32,707,359 cases with 581,752 deaths as of Sunday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
