US has suffered more than 1m excess deaths during pandemic, CDC finds
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The latest statistic hints at the breadth of Covid-19’s impact on health in the United StatesThere have been more than 1m…
The latest statistic hints at the breadth of Covid-19’s impact on health in the United StatesThere have been more than 1m…
By Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, Anthony BarrEarlier this year, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) published data…
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Two recent, related COVID news items: The U.S. death toll from COVID passed 750,000 earlier this month, according to both the…
I crunched some numbers this morning on COVID mortality versus excess mortality in the USA last year, and found some very…
Chronicle of Higher Education, The Dystopian Delta University, by Silke-Maria Weineck (Michigan): Organ loss, cancer, pregnancy …
In 2020, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer. This year the Delta variant…
Ross Douthat engages in a very special kind of counterfactual speculation here, wondering what would have happened if the COVID-1…
It’s now part of the conventional wisdom surrounding COVID that fat people are especially vulnerable to being hospitalized…
The United States carried out seventeen executions during the pandemic year 2020. Seven of those executions were carried out by…
As expected, the first year of the covid-19 pandemic has lowered the collective life expectancy of Americans. Researchers from…
“We have built a house of cards to live in, and the pandemic was a wind that just blew the house down,” said one expert.View…
The narrative we hear time and time again is that we are “losing the war on cancer.” The latest cancer statistics show that…
“People are getting retriggered with each new calamity in a way that’s paralyzing. The level of grieving is almost electric.”View…
As Covid raged, so did the country’s other epidemic. Drug overdose deaths rose nearly 30 percent in 2020 to a record 93,000…
A new study reveals something that might surprise you.
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By Nancy Lapid March 31 – The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and…
It’s well known that the so-called Spanish flu epidemic killed approximately 675,000 Americans in 1918-19. Given that the US…
Covid drives 2020 deaths over 3…
THURSDAY, April 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 was reported as an underlying or contributing cause of death for 11.3…
COVID-19 drove a 15.9% increase in the nationwide death rate in 2020, alongside increases from heart disease, injuries…
The CDC released the Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2020 today: During January–December 2020, the estimated 2020…