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Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, a recurring topic of debate has been whether official (...)
Fewer precautions, recent holidays and subvariants have driven rise but boosters, masks and other precautions are still effective
In the fourth year of the pandemic, Covid-19 is once again spreading across America and being driven by the recent holidays, fewer precautions and the continuing (...)
Respiratory viruses are hitting young children and infants particularly hard this fall and winter season, and experts don’t yet know exactly why.
Every fall and winter, viral respiratory illnesses like the common cold and seasonal flu keep kids out of school and social activities. But this (...)
Exclusive: America’s top disease expert speaks to the Guardian about the dangers of long Covid and urges US Congress to avoid complacency
Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, has warned against prematurely declaring victory over the pandemic, not only due to short-term (...)
Americans have in the last two years suffered a dramatic decline in life expectancy, from nearly 79 years in 2019 to 76 in 2021. This is a historic decline; nothing like it has been seen since the 1920s.
According to Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at (...)
Virus has laid bare America’s fragmented healthcare system and corrosive racial and socioeconomic inequality
[American flags fly at half-staff to mark one million deaths from the coronavirus on the National Mall in Washington, on 12 May. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA]
More than one million (...)
We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid
A new omicron variant, referred to as BA 2, is taking hold in the US. Anthony Fauci and others have said they don’t expect a new surge in the (...)
Public health authorities suggest Americans need to prepare to pivot back even as they tire of the forever pandemic
he Biden administration is facing a delicate balancing act between relaxing US Covid-19 precautions during the current lull in case numbers in the US and conveying the urgency of (...)
The new CDC guidelines relax the criteria for concern about COVID-19 [1] risk and permit a decrease in public health protective mandates. The People’s CDC is issuing a reminder that we are still in a pandemic for which precautionary measures remain critical. Preventive measures to help protect (...)
Left-leaning people wonder ‘what’s wrong’ with the unvaccinated. But what if their non-compliance isn’t that surprising?
Hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 in the US are now driven heavily (although not exclusively) by the small share who remain unvaccinated. According to the latest CDC (...)
As the US passes 900,000 Covid deaths, much of the blame has fallen on individuals despite vast income inequality and vaccine accessibility issues
The US has suffered 900,000 deaths from Covid-19, the highest figure of any nation. The death toll would be equivalent to the 15th most populous (...)
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled President Joseph Biden’s plan to mandate vaccinations for American workers employed by private businesses. It was an extraordinarily irrational and reactionary ruling by one of the most undemocratic and authoritarian institutions of our (...)
Donations through the online retailer’s charitable program come as it faces criticism for its role in health misinformation
Amazon’s charitable program is paying tens of thousands of dollars to anti-vaccine groups in a move experts say is “shocking” as millions of Americans remain unvaccinated in (...)
IN THE UNITED STATES, most of the Covid antivax agitation comes from rightwing sources. It is dangerous and reprehensible because it threatens legitimate public health efforts to bring a pandemic under control that has already killed at least 750,000 people in the U.S. and five million (...)
It’s unclear when the pandemic will come to an end. What may be an even more important question is whether the U.S. will be prepared for the next one. The past year and a half suggests that the answer may be no.
As a medical anthropologist who has spent the past 20 years studying how the (...)
Joe Biden laments ‘astonishing death toll’ as 100,000 die since June despite the availability of vaccines
The Covid-19 death toll in the US has now surpassed 700,000, despite the Covid-19 vaccines’ wide availability, in what one expert called a “tragic and completely avoidable milestone”.
Data (...)
Although a few states have seen large increases in vaccination rates among Black and Latino Americans, most are still trailing behind.
When vaccines became increasingly available throughout America, US health officials moved quickly to try to convince large numbers of Americans to get (...)
US labor department officials on Thursday announced a temporary emergency standard to protect healthcare workers, saying they face “grave danger” in the workplace from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The new standard would require employers to remove workers who have Covid-19 from the (...)
‘We don’t want to declare victory prematurely,’ expert tells the Guardian while 2021 has seen more global cases than all of 2020.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases expert in the US, has warned it is too early to declare victory against Covid-19 as cases fall in the country to the (...)
The latest wave in the U.S. of COVID new cases, hospitalizations and deaths, which began in the autumn, rose to new highs in the first days of the new year.
How bad this became is indicated that within weeks total deaths are on schedule to reach half a million since the pandemic began. Over 95 million of these projected total deaths occurred in January alone, almost 20 percent.
This spike within the new wave was attributed to the large amount of travel, partying and large gatherings over (...)
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