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The likelihood of death for Black people under the age of 25 and working-age adults increased significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new research on mortality rates published ...
The death rate due to COVID-19 dropped across every age group and racial/ethnic group, with males (22.1 for every 100,000 individuals) having a higher rate than females, who had a death rate of 15 ...
In the United States, heart failure and acute myocarditis mortality trends have been increasing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working-age Hispanics are disproportionately represented in COVID-19 deaths. Hispanic people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates, and a new study suggests that ...
By 2019, the stroke death rate for this age group had grown 7% from where it was seven years earlier, and it spiked another 12% in the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Study estimates COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality rates in the US during the pre-vaccination period, revealing significant age and racial disparities in outcomes.
Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2021, following heart disease and cancer, for the second year in a row, according to provisional data ...
COVID-19 is no longer a top cause of death for Americans, dropping from fourth place in 2022 to 10th place in 2023. Heart disease, cancer and "unintentional injuries" like drug overdoses lead the way.
COVID-19 has had 'devastating and disproportionate' impact on poorest Americans, report finds. Death rates among the poor were double the death rates of wealthy Americans.
For example, the rate was 10.2% in homes where admitted COVID-19 patients accounted for 50% or more of a home’s total population; 7.7% if they accounted for 10-20% of a home’s population; and ...
Study finds lower COVID-19 death rates in hospitals with better nurse staffing levels, Magnet designations, and RNs with BSNs. Read five key findings.