Authors: Casey B. Mulligan, Robert D. Arnott, Working Paper 30104 http://www.nber.org/papers/w30104 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2022 ABSTRACT From April 2020 through at least the end of 2021, Americans died from non-Covid causes at an average annual rate 97,000 in excess of previous trends. Hypertension and heart disease […]
Authors: Sam Ogozalek June 3, 2022 Tampa Bay Times Working-class Americans died of COVID-19 at five times the rate of those in higher socioeconomic positions during the first year of the pandemic, according to a study. The staggering disparity was revealed in a study of roughly 69,000 U.S. coronavirus victims ages 25 to 64 who […]
The CDC is beginning to look at death certificates that indicate more than 100 people who died had long Covid. Authors: ERIN BANCO 06/03/2022 Politico The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is analyzing more than 100 deaths that could be attributed to long Covid by looking at death certificates from across the country over […]
Authors: BENJAMIN MUELLER and Eleanor LutzThe New York Times May 31, 2022 Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, COVID killed them at vastly higher rates during this winter’s omicron wave than it did last year, preying on long delays since their last shots and the variant’s ability to skirt immune defenses. This winter’s wave of […]
Authors: Chris Melore MAY 13, 2022 Study Finds Long COVID continues to be a lingering problem for more and more coronavirus patients in the months following their infection. Now, a new study contends that the life-threatening inflammation many patients experience — causing long-term damage to their health — is turning COVID-19 into a chronic condition. […]
Authors: Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times MY 13, 2022 An increasing number of COVID-19 deaths are occurring among individuals in the United States who have been vaccinated, according to federal data. In August of 2021, roughly 18.9 percent of COVID-19 deaths happened among individuals who were vaccinated, an ABC News analysis of the data shows. Six months later in February 2022, […]
Authors: Tina Reed Kavya Beheraj May 12, 2022 Axios Deaths from COVID-19 are on the rise again after several weeks of upward ticking case rates sparked by Omicron variants. Driving the news: The U.S. averaged roughly 365 daily deaths, up 7% from about 342 two weeks ago. That’s still a fraction of where things stood several […]
Authors: Jim Hoft Published May 11, 2022 ABC News Analysis of federal data conducted by ABC News showed that more Covid-19 deaths occurred among the vaccinated, and more breakthrough deaths are expected with more Americans reaching full vaccination status, experts warned. According to the new analysis, about 18.9% of COVID-19 deaths recorded were among the vaccinated in […]
Authors: Deidre McPhillips, CNN Updated 7:58 AM ET, Wed May 11, 2022 CNN Health Since Covid-19 vaccines became widely available, there has been a wide gap in deaths between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. But recent Covid deaths are much more evenly split as highly transmissible variants take hold, vaccine protection wanes and booster uptake stagnates. […]
Authors: T. Beaney, A. L. Neves, A. Alboksmaty, H. Ashrafian, K. Flott, A. Fowler, J. R. Benger, P. Aylin, S. Elkin, A. Darzi & J. Clarke Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 2356 (2022) Abstract The Covid-19 mortality rate varies between countries and over time but the extent to which this is explained by the underlying risk in those infected is unclear. Using data on all adults in England with […]