IHME | Total COVID-19 Mortality Integration (May 6, 2021)

Our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly changed – we're now looking at total COVID-19 deaths rather than reported COVID-19 deaths due to underreporting in many countries. IHME Director Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray explains. Explore the latest forecasts: https://covid19.healthdata.org/​​​ and view the latest updates here: http://bit.ly/IHME-Episodes​ The Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health. This video, and clips of it, are free to use on blogs, news programs, and elsewhere. Please write to [email protected] with a link to your publication.