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As Emergency Ends, a Look at Covid’s U.S. Death Toll - The New York Times

As Emergency Ends, a Look at Covid’s U.S. Death Toll

Since the coronavirus pandemic began more than three years ago, the United States has suffered wave after wave of loss. The expiration of the federal declaration of the Covid-19 public health emergency on Thursday signals a new outlook on the disease, and it presents a moment to look back at the toll the virus has taken.

This map shows where people have died of Covid at the highest rates. Few places were left untouched.

Covid-19 deaths per 100,000 people

Note: Data as of May 10, 2023, through the week ending May 3, 2023.

The pace of deaths has slowed greatly since early last year, but the toll has continued to climb. More than 1.1 million people have died.

1,131,729 dead

As of May 3, 2023

All U.S. adults

eligible for vaccine

First report of

a U.S. death on

Feb. 29 

First vaccines

administered

in Dec. 2020

While deaths are at the lowest level since March 2020, Covid still takes the lives of a thousand people every week.

Deaths peaked before

widespread vaccination

25 thousand deaths per week

And the disease remains among the leading causes of death in the United States.

Chronic respiratory

diseases

Alzheimer’s disease

Note: *Accidents (unintentional injuries) were the third leading cause of death in 2022 but are not included in the 2023 preliminary ranking because injury-related causes of death are publicly released with a lag of six months from the date of death. Data for 2022 and 2023 is provisional.


As Emergency Ends, a Look at Covid’s U.S. Death Toll - The New York Times

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