The overall death rate, or the crude death rate, in Ocean County currently is below average, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Long Beach Island area doctor who also oversees the LBI Health Department.
Crude mortality rate is the mortality rate from all causes of death for a population, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“It’s impossible to have an active lethal pandemic with the overall death rate lower than the trend,” said Joseph Lattanzi, a radiation oncologist at Southern Ocean Medical Center who holds an…
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