In a recent article published in Science Advances, researchers estimated all-cause excess mortality for the United States (US) between March 2020 and February 2022 to understand the impact of the ...

The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been starkly unequal across race and ethnicity. We examined the geographic variation in excess all-cause mortality by race and ...

The mortality rate for children and teens in the United States surged in 2020 and 2021, driven not by deaths from Covid-19 but from fatal injuries from things like firearms, drugs and cars, according ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home residents have accounted for roughly one of every six COVID-19 deaths in the United States. Nursing homes have also been very dangerous places ...

COVID-related deaths had a greater impact on the city’s mortality rates in 2020 than the Spanish flu pandemic had on 1918 death rates, alarming new statistics released by the city’s Department of ...

In a recent study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, a team of researchers analyzed the mortality in selected countries during multiple waves of the coronavirus disease ...

Death rates for Americans ages 15 and older rose sharply in 2020, hitting Black and Hispanic Americans the hardest, according to a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Feb 22 (Reuters) - Maternal mortality rates climbed or stagnated in nearly all regions across the world in 2020, according to a report released by U.N. agencies on Wednesday, marking a major setback ...

As per report, only one-third of countries meet WHO standards for high-quality mortality reporting. Around half of the data have low or very low-quality data, or no reliable mortality data systems in ...