WHO said it wasn’t yet able to break down the data to distinguish between direct deaths from COVID-19 and those related to effects of the pandemic, but the agency plans a future project examining death certificates. “This may seem like just a bean-counting exercise, but ha...
"Because of the wide disparities that exist in COVID-related deaths, and we know that COVID deaths were not equal across the population, especially hit…Black populations and other and African American people, it's not surprising that when you overall reduce COVID deaths, that will overall ...
On July 28, 2024, the coronavirus death toll stood at over 168,000 deaths in France. The cumulative number of deaths in France attributed to COVID-19 increased especially in the winter season 2020-2021. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedic...
Heart disease deaths have been on the rise since 2020, Ahmad’s team noted, while cancer deaths also charted a rise during 2021 and 2022, after years of decline. In terms of which segments of the U.S. population faced the highest odds of dying in 2022, the report found that Black and...
In 2021, the African region experienced a particularly deadly pandemic, with the analysis estimating that COVID-19 was the seventh major cause of death, just below malaria, while in 2020, the virus was the 22nd major cause of death in the region. The significant increase in deaths in 2021 ...
Regarding the effect of air pollutants concentrations on COVID-19 related deaths, Conticini et al. (2020), by investigating the relevant literature, concluded that prolonged exposure to air pollutants may lead to chronic respiratory conditions, even in healthy and young people. X. Wu et al. (20...
We estimate that the ensuing wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections caused 1.41 million deaths in China during December 2022–February 2023, substantially higher than that reported through official channelsZhanwei DuYuchen WangYuan BaiLin WangCowling, Benjamin John...
SKOPJE, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19-related deaths in North Macedonia surpassed 9,000 on Sunday, with the Health Ministry reporting seven fatalities in the last 24 hours. According to the country's Public Health Institute, medical staff have conducted 2,560 tests in the pa...
Reports of long COVID deaths varied substantially over the course of the pandemic, with many reported around the Omicron surge last winter. The highest monthly toll was in February 2022. More than two-thirds of the deaths mentioning long COVID were on certificates citing COVID-19 as the under...
“profound racial/ethnic disparities” in those who died from Covid-19. Separate researchfrom the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities(NIMHD), published in February 2022, indicates that general Covid-related discrimination towards non-white adults in America has gotten worse ...