Between the beginning of January 2020 and June 14, 2023, of the 1,134,641 deaths caused by COVID-19 in the United States, around 307,169 had occurred among those aged 85 years and older. This statistic shows the number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the U.S. from...
The study was motivated by the surprising early severity and number of deaths from COVID-19 in Italy. Compared to South Korea, which also had an early surge in cases, Italy has one of the oldest populations in the world with 23.3% over age 65, compared to 14% in South Korea. Using t...
NEW YORK, May 1 (Xinhua) -- New York is still the state hit the hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, with 308,314 confirmed cases and 24,039 deaths, as the country's total cases reached above 1.1 million on Friday, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo. New hospitaliza...
"But deaths have still been concentrated among older patients and patients" with other health problems, Holland said. "Even as the pandemic has spread more broadly in the population, the demographics of who dies from COVID has not really changed." In Florida, for instance, 83 percent of deat...
December 2019. Despite the progress in COVID-19 management, its death toll is still catastrophic [1]. According to the World Health Organization (Update: July 22, 2021), near 192 million people have caught the disease, and around 4.1 million deaths were reported due to the COVID-19 [2]...
COVID-19 took a heavy toll on older adults. In Belgium, by the end of August, 93% of deaths due to COVID-19 were aged 65 or older. Similar trends were observed in other countries. As a consequence, older adults were identified as a group at risk, and str
Up to March 16, 2022, 460 280 168 confirmed cases and 6 050 018 confirmed deaths have been reported to the WHO.2 Rapid spread of COVID-19 has had enormous social, economic, and health care system effects around the world. Effective treatment to block the spread of COVID-19 ...
Of those, the largest number of COVID-19 patients is reported in South Africa with about 5300 cases and 100 (about 1.9%) deaths as of April 30, 20202, 8. Across all these countries, the total number of cases is increasing. Due to heterogeneous conditions and often broadly undersampled ...
South Korea, and Japan. This was followed by Canada and Israel with both close to 700 deaths per 1 million population. The third group included Germany, Austria and Sweden with deaths per 1 million people ranging between 1000 and 1500, with the highest rates being in Romania, the USA and ...
Motivated by reports of an overwhelmed health system, we estimate the likely under-ascertainment of COVID-19 mortality in Damascus, Syria. Using all-cause mortality data, we fit a mathematical model of COVID-19 transmission to reported mortality, estimating that 1.25% of COVID-19 deaths (...