![]() ![]() "In the spring of 2020, nearly half of the deaths we saw in the hospital were in nursing home residents who had severe underlying co-morbidities," Garibaldi said. Vaccinology lead, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centerīrian Garibaldi, the CRC's clinical lead and medical director of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit, said the impact of deaths on hospitals and health care staff has shifted throughout the pandemic. deaths after heart disease and cancer in 20 also served to lower life expectancy in both years. 31, 2021, according to Emily Pond, a CRC research data analyst.ĭata from the CDC indicated that the emergence of COVID-19 as the third leading cause of U.S. That represented a 45% increase over the previous six-month period from May 1 to Oct. The rate of increase has slowed this year by 23%, from 222,000 deaths recorded in the first four months of 2021 to 170,000 fatalities over the same period in 2022.īut the omicron variant first detected in the United States in late 2021 drove a recent spike in the number of deaths over the past six months-from November 2021 through April-to nearly 250,000. Reported COVID-19 deaths in the United States increased nearly 36%, from around 350,000 in 2020 to nearly 475,000 last year, according to CRC data. "Infections continue to spread, but where and how widely becomes a deeper mystery every day the government fails to implement a national strategy for capturing all available testing data, including results from at-home tests." "People continue to die every day of COVID-19, some needlessly so," Blauer said. She cautioned that "the pandemic is not over" regardless of the lifting of mask mandates and other precautions and the reduction in data collection. "What's worse, the nation has essentially ceased tracking testing results in any way that would be meaningful for equipping the public and policymakers with the best data for making smart decisions on how to proceed with daily life." "But our data reporting and tracking systems are so flawed that local, state, and federal agencies have not been able to provide with full confidence just how deadly this pandemic has been," Blauer said. "The shock of so many deaths, along with the large number of people now living with long-COVID symptoms, means that this pandemic will unfortunately be felt by individuals, and reflected in our public health data, for a long time to come."īeth Blauer, the CRC data lead and associate vice provost for public sector innovation, said the death toll's tragedy is compounded by the realization that far more have perished. "People who die from COVID-19 leave behind family and friends, children without parents and grandparents to care for them, spouses and partners, and in some cases parents who must go on without their children," she added. Watson said the "public health impact of such widespread death cannot be captured" by the data alone. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. than are officially counted," according to the U.S. "Hundreds of thousands more people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. actually reached this tragic milestone some time ago," said Crystal Watson, the CRC's public health lead and a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "While one million COVID-19 deaths is a mind-boggling number, we know that the U.S. Public health lead, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center President Joe Biden marked what he called the "tragic milestone" on Thursday of last week by ordering flags to be flown at half-staff and urging citizens to "remain vigilant" against a pandemic that has infected nearly 60% of the U.S. died from the disease weeks or months ago. Most experts say a million people in the U.S. "Equally tragic, and also once unthinkable, are the recent WHO estimates that the pandemic resulted in nearly 15 million excess deaths globally in 20." "The United States has reached the once unthinkable grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths," said William Moss, the CRC vaccinology lead and executive director of the Johns Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center. Globally, approximately 6.3 million people have died of COVID-19, although a recent World Health Organization review has estimated the total could be nearly three times higher-including 110,000 more in the United States than are currently documented. The number of fatalities is likely much higher both in the United States and around the world, experts from the CRC said. It's a morbid milestone for a new disease that first emerged in China in late 2019, claimed its first American lives in early 2020, and rapidly became the third leading cause of U.S. The United States has officially surpassed one million reported COVID-19 deaths, according to data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. ![]() Donovan Email Office phone 44 Cell phone 44 Twitter JHUmediareps
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