More older adults in New York and nationwide have received an updated COVID-19 vaccine this year than last, and that, along with a less virulent virus and some immunity derived from previous ...

As a pre-winter COVID-19 surge passes one million daily infections, and a bird flu death is recorded in Washington state, the ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. "had the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on earth." ...

For the first time since the pandemic began, COVID-19 dropped out of the nation's top 10 causes of death in 2024, new U.S. government data shows. Overall U.S. death rates also fell to their lowest ...

A large-scale analysis of 2,745 county-level features revealed that socioeconomic and demographic indicators aligned far more ...

The U.S. saw roughly 3.07 million deaths in 2024, with a notable 3.8% drop in the overall age-adjusted death rate compared to 2023. Mortality fell across most age, sex, and racial/ethnic groups, ...

It is not currently understood whether the COVID-19 pandemic led to a lengthy period of elevated mortality rates or whether rates have returned to prepandemic trends. To examine this, I calculated age ...