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From Starvation To Overdose, Coronavirus’ Hidden Toll Emerges In Colorado’s Death Data
By John Daley/CPR News • 6 hours ago
In 2020, 46,808 people died in Colorado, the most ever recorded in one year in the state, and a 21 percent increase over the average number of deaths for the three prior years.
In 2020, COVID-19 ravaged the state's nursing homes, forcing an end to visitation by family and friends and lockdowns of residents. That in turn appears to have contributed to a hidden toll from the disease for some Colorado seniors.
Starvation.
As many as 100 more seniors than expected, most of them in nursing homes, essentially stopped eating in 2020 and died of what is clinically termed "nutritional deficiencies" on state death certificates.
COVID-19 has now officially claimed more than 5,500 Colorado lives, but as state health officials finish compiling records from the deadliest year in state history, hundreds of additional deaths, which appear to have at least an arm’s length connection to the pandemic, are becoming apparent.
They include those 100 out of 347 people who died last year of starvation, and at least some of those who died of parasitic diseases, drug overdoses, Alzheimer’s and liver diseases too. All those causes of death experienced double-digit percentage increases in 2020. That’s above the average number of deaths from the causes in the three-years prior to the start of the pandemic...
From Starvation To Overdose, Coronavirus’ Hidden Toll Emerges In Colorado’s Death Data
By John Daley/CPR News • 6 hours ago
In 2020, 46,808 people died in Colorado, the most ever recorded in one year in the state, and a 21 percent increase over the average number of deaths for the three prior years.
In 2020, COVID-19 ravaged the state's nursing homes, forcing an end to visitation by family and friends and lockdowns of residents. That in turn appears to have contributed to a hidden toll from the disease for some Colorado seniors.
Starvation.
As many as 100 more seniors than expected, most of them in nursing homes, essentially stopped eating in 2020 and died of what is clinically termed "nutritional deficiencies" on state death certificates.
COVID-19 has now officially claimed more than 5,500 Colorado lives, but as state health officials finish compiling records from the deadliest year in state history, hundreds of additional deaths, which appear to have at least an arm’s length connection to the pandemic, are becoming apparent.
They include those 100 out of 347 people who died last year of starvation, and at least some of those who died of parasitic diseases, drug overdoses, Alzheimer’s and liver diseases too. All those causes of death experienced double-digit percentage increases in 2020. That’s above the average number of deaths from the causes in the three-years prior to the start of the pandemic...