Some of the excess deaths may have been people with heart problems or other conditions who didn't go to the hospital because of COVID-19 fears.
, it was the leading cause of death in April, said Dr. James Gill, the state’s chief medical examiner. The office has handled over 2,300 certified coronavirus-related deaths since late March. Normally, the state averages 2,500 deaths in a typical month.
The analysis was based on data through last week. Data from more recent weeks is less complete than older information, Anderson said. It can take weeks for the death certificate data to catch up with case reports, which suggest that the nation's current COVID-19 death toll is more than 60,000. Connecticut investigators, for example, tested 160 bodies at funeral homes for coronavirus, and more than half came back positive.
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