The chief infectious disease specialist in the United States said about the "underestimation" of deaths from COVID-19

The U.S. is "without a doubt" undercounting coronavirus deaths, the country's chief infectious disease specialist and senior medical adviser to the president, Anthony Fauci, told NBC.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at 06:30 Moscow time, 578,520 deaths were recorded in the United States after infection with coronavirus. However, last week, experts from a research center at the University of Washington published a study that spoke of more than 900,000 deaths in the United States during the pandemic.

During an appearance on NBC, Fauci was asked if he thought the results of the Washington study could be true. “It’s a little more than I could think about how much the count is underestimated <...>,” he admitted (quoted from The Hill).

At the same time, Fauci said that "there is no doubt that we are undercounting [deaths after COVID-19]."