The news media dutifully report each day’s increase in new cases and deaths, but putting these numbers in perspective may be difficult. The daily US mortality rate for COVID-19 deaths is equivalent to the September 11, 2001, attacks, which claimed 2988 lives,1 occurring every 1.5 days, ...
Deaths outside hospitals and emergency calls for cardiac arrests spiked in metropolitan Detroit during a COVID-19 surge last year, a new study finds. The U.S. is in the midst of a winter wave of COVID-19. COVID-19 is not the problem it once was in the U.S. Americans...
The US Washington National Cathedral sounded 1,000 times to mark the 1 million Americans that have died in the COVID-19 pandemic.It is the US’ own failure to respond effectively to the crisis that has led to such a tragic loss of life.It is common sense to wear a mask against the ...
As of 1st June 2020, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported 104,232 confirmed or probable COVID-19-related deaths in the US. This was more than twice the number of deaths reported in the next most severely impacted country. We jointly
Using 1 year of US county-level data, we found that sharp drops in mobility often coincided with declining infection rates in the most populous counties in spring 2020. However, the association varied considerably in other locations and across time. Our findings are sensitive to model flexibility...
Registered Nurse Emily Enos loads the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine into a syringe ahead of distribution to seniors above the age of 65 who are experiencing homelessness at the Los Angeles Mission, in the Skid Row area of Downtown Los Angeles, California on February 10, 2021, as the fight again...
FILE - The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat.(ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) RELATED:Ellume COVID-19 home test: US awards $231M contract...
Masks can help protect against the spread of Covid-19, but they’re only effective if you wear them properly. Send us your questions CNN is collecting your questions about Covid-19. We’ll be answering some of them in upcoming stories. Listen to our podcast Join CNN Chief Medical Correspo...
Hospitals are at the worst point ever in this pandemic Remember those grim scenes from the spring and summer surge, when hospitals were overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients? The US set a new record-high number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 on Saturday – 69,455, according to the...
Despite the lower death toll, however, Covid-19 will likely remain the third leading cause of death in the US in 2022 for the third year in a row. In 2021, as in many years before, the top causes of death in the US were heart disease and cancer, each killing more than 600,000 ...