Article content Mortality data suggest that far more Saskatchewan people may have died with COVID-19 during the first nine months of the pandemic than officially reported. Tara Moriarty, an associate professor and infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto, tallied up Statistics Canada death data for every province between March and mid-November of 2020. She found that there were 368 more deaths in Saskatchewan during that period than patterns for previous years would suggest. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Data suggests COVID-19 deaths undercounted in Sask. Back to video Even after controlling for a high number of overdose deaths last year, she found 293 “excess deaths” in Saskatchewan. Yet the province reported just 29 deaths among people who tested positive for COVID-19 over that period. That suggests Saskatchewan had missed a large number of COVID-19 deaths — perhaps underestimating its tally as much as tenfold.