Dr. Anthony Fauci privately calculated that COVID-19 had a significantly lower fatality rate than what he told Congress a month later at the outset of the pandemic. On March 11, 2020, the day that the ...

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 ...

Black Americans are dying at a disproportionate rate from the COVID-19 because of underlying health conditions such as high blood pressure, hypertension and lung and heart disease, experts say.

New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as death rates have continued to fall since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Per capita, Peru had the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 with 665.84 deaths per 100,000 people from January 2020 to March 2023. The U.S. rate was nearly half that — 341.11 deaths per 100,000 ...

Africa's coronavirus case fatality rate stands at 2.5%, higher than the global level of 2.2%, a trend that is alarming experts, the head of the continent's disease control body said on Thursday.