This USA map shows wThis U.S. state map shows how actual 2020 deaths in each state compared with the expected number. It's s mostly pink. Arizona and New Jersey are red, meaning bad, and Mississiippi, Texas, CColorado, South Dakota, Illinois and some other states are dark pink. North Carolina and West Virginia look green, for some reason. (Credit: CDC)

Early government numbers show that at least 3.2 million people died in the United States in 2020, and that the number of deaths was at least 12% higher than expected.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.

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