{"id":6967,"date":"2023-08-29T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2023-08-29T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:41:21","slug":"covid-to-blame-for-just-1-of-weekly-deaths-from-all-causes-across-the-us-cdc-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=6967","title":{"rendered":"Covid to blame for just 1% of weekly deaths from all causes across the US, CDC data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Covid Infections surge in US amid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12433429\/Covid-panic-infections-virus-mild-cold.html\">rise of two mutant variants<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Alexa+Lardieri+U.S.+Deputy+Health+Editor+Dailymail.Com\">ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/a> 29 August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid was to blame for just 1 percent of weekly deaths from all causes across the US in the most recent week, CDC data shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Covid dashboard shows 324 Covid deaths were registered in the week ending August 19 &#8211; making up just 1.7 percent of the overall fatalities that week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For comparison, the virus was behind one in three deaths from all causes at America&#8217;s pandemic peak in 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/13\/74798471-12453329-Just_1_7_percent_of_the_324_deaths_from_all_causes_during_the_we-a-1_1693310728569.jpg\" alt=\"Just 1.7 percent of the 324 deaths from all causes during the week ending Aug. 19 listed the virus\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just 1.7 percent of the 324 deaths from all causes during the week ending Aug. 19 listed the virus&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary or underlying cause of death is defined as the disease, situation or event that initiated the chain of events directly resulting in death. PICTURED: People wearing masks wait to enter the Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, in July 2020<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of Covid deaths in the week ending Aug. 19 represents a slight increase from the previous week and continues a five-week upward trend, but is a drastic decline from the peak of the pandemic, when 30 percent of deaths listed Covid as a cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dashboard shows Washington, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland and New York all have higher rates of deaths due to Covid. Maryland and Florida have the highest, at 3.4 percent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington, Tennessee, North Carolina and New York all hover around 2 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data also shows the death rate is slightly higher among women than men, and death rates are highest in people 75 years and older.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Covid data will be reassuring at a time&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12445363\/experts-say-dont-panic-new-covid-variant.html\">when panic<\/a>&nbsp;is rising across the US as highly transmissible new Covid variants circulate, leading to more infections and hospitalizations and causing the reimplementation of some Covid mandates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New variants EG.5, or Eris, and BA.8.26, or Pirola, have been detected in several countries around the globe and in the US recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These variants are highly mutated and thought to be better at avoiding vaccine and natural immunity, causing more infections.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12456679\/UK-prepare-bird-flu-pandemic-mutations-humans.html?ico=related-replace\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infections appear to have doubled across the US amid the emergence of these variants and hospital admissions among people with the virus have risen for the fifth week in a row &#8211; but still remain at near-historic lows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crucially, however, Covid deaths are not rising quickly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panic about a Covid upswing last week saw the Hollywood movie studio Lionsgate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12432869\/Now-Hollywood-brings-mask-mandates-Lionsgate-studios-asks-office-staff-don-face-coverings-test-Covid-hospital-rates-rise-fifth-week.html\">reinforce mask mandates<\/a>, asking its employees to don face coverings at its Santa Monica, California offices. However, just several days later, the movie studio reversed its decision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"541\" width=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/13\/74616045-12453329-The_above_graph_shows_the_percent_of_positive_Covid_cases_tan_li-a-4_1693310728576.jpg\" alt=\"The above graph shows the percent of positive Covid cases (tan line) and the weekly number of new Covid hospitalizations (blue bars) as of the week ending Aug. 12\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above graph shows the percent of positive Covid cases (tan line) and the weekly number of new Covid hospitalizations (blue bars) as of the week ending Aug. 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rutgers University in New Jersey and Morris Brown College in Georgia, both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12437079\/new-covid-variant-mask-mandate-hospital-kaiser-permanente-california.html\">announced last week&nbsp;<\/a>face masks will once again be required for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12429667\/Doctors-Seattle-call-masks-mandatory-healthcare-workers-amid-rise-new-Covid-variant-BA-2-86.html\">staff and students<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Kaiser Permanente hospital in Santa Rosa, California,&nbsp;and Upstate Community Hospital in Syracuse, New York, have both brought back mask mandates for doctors, nurses, patients and visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week in Kentucky, the Lee County School District&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12441473\/Covid-chaos-classrooms-Kentucky-school-district-sends-students-home-tripledemic-Covid-flu-strep-outbreaks.html\">canceled classes<\/a>&nbsp;less than two weeks after opening because nearly one-fifth of its students were out sick with a &#8216;tripledemic&#8217; illness, including Covid, strep throat and the flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, President Biden said his administration will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12445669\/Get-ready-booster-Covid-vaccines-Brand-new-shots-Pfizer-Moderna-Novavax-available-mid-September-17-Americans-took-one.html\">&#8216;likely&#8217; recommend<\/a>&nbsp;Americans receive another Covid booster vaccine in the coming weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He signed a proposal on Friday asking Congress for more funding to update Covid vaccines to better protect against the new variants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there is little interest among Americans to receive boosters and only 18 percent of eligible Americans have received any version of a booster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An earlier version of this article claimed 99 percent of Covid deaths in the past week were not primarily caused by the virus. In fact, a footnote at the bottom of the CDC&#8217;s Covid data tracker explains the percentage of all reported deaths attributed as Covid-19 is calculated based on the number of deaths from all causes. 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