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News Articles: COVID-19 deaths

<em></em>Flags at the Washington Monument commemorate Americans who died from  COVID-19. In 2021, life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row.

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  • Health Care

Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19

Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row and is the biggest drop since the 1920s. COVID-19 is driving the downward trend, according to CDC data.

August 31, 2022
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By:
  • Jane Greenhalgh and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
A preliminary report says 458 U.S. law enforcement officers died in 2021, citing COVID-19 as the leading cause of death for the second consecutive year.

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  • National

COVID was again the leading cause of death among U.S. law enforcement in 2021

Some 458 officers died in the line of duty, making 2021 the deadliest year since 1930. The vast majority of deaths — 301 — are attributed to COVID-19, followed by firearm and traffic incidents.

January 12, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
President Biden reads the number of COVID-19 deaths from a card he keeps in his pocket on July 29, 2021.

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  • Politics

Biden stopped marking grim COVID milestones as he fought to end the pandemic

Biden used to talk a lot about the COVID-19 death toll, but over the last year he's shifted to how fight the pandemic. Some want him to go back to addressing the country's grief.

December 24, 2021
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
COVID-19 survivors gather in New York and place stickers representing lost relatives on a wall in remembrance of those who have died during the pandemic.

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  • Health

COVID deaths leave thousands of U.S. kids grieving parents or primary caregivers

Roughly 175,000 children in the U.S. have lost one or both parents or a grandparent caregiver to COVID-19, according to a new study. The majority come from racial and ethnic minority groups.

October 07, 2021
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee and
  • Carmel Wroth
In December 2019, Cynthia Carrillo placed her older brother David at Villa Mesa Care Center, a nursing home in Upland, Calif. After the shutdown in March of 2020, Cynthia Carrillo couldn't visit David inside Villa Mesa. One month later, David, 65, who had Down syndrome, died from COVID-19.

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  • Health

In California, Nursing Home Owners Can Operate After They're Denied A License

Nursing home chain ReNew Health continues to care for hundreds of patients even after the state attempted to crack down. Before and during the pandemic, homes connected to ReNew had safety violations.

May 26, 2021
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By:
  • Aaron Mendelson and
  • Elly Yu
Brandon Little and his sister, Kylee, stand on a shore looking over waves.

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  • Health

COVID-19 And The Children Left Behind After Parents, Grandparents Die

More than half a million Americans have died of COVID-19 and, in Georgia, families are grieving the loss of nearly 20,000 loved ones. The pandemic will define a generation of children who lost a parent, grandparent or caregiver. GPB's Ellen Eldridge reports. 

 

May 12, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Victims of COVID-19 are cremated in funeral pyres this week in New Delhi. Scientists says the real death toll and number of infections are likely much higher than what the Indian government is reporting.

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  • Global Health

India Is Counting Thousands Of Daily COVID Deaths. How Many Is It Missing?

Scientists, funeral directors and survivors say the real numbers of infections and deaths in India may be many times more than the reported figures.

April 30, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Sushmita Pathak
A tombstone that says "mother."

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  • Children's Health

Study Estimates 43,000 US Children Lost A Parent To COVID-19

A study released Monday finds 43,000 children in the U.S. have lost a parent due to COVID-19. Researchers with the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics also find Black children are disproportionately affected.

April 05, 2021
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Congressional leaders held a candlelight vigil outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on February 23, 2021 to mark the more than 500,000 U.S. deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 was the third leading underlying cause of death in 2020, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday.

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  • Health

CDC: COVID-19 Was 3rd Leading Cause Of Death In 2020, People Of Color Hit Hardest

A pair of reports published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday sheds new light on the approximately 375,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. last year.

April 01, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Embalmer and funeral director Kristy Oliver (left) and funeral attendant Sam Deras load the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 into a hearse in El Cajon, Calif. People who work in hospitals and in funeral homes are witnesses to the loss than many Americans can avoid.

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  • Health

'A Loss To The Whole Society': U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Reaches 500,000

As the country faces another wrenching milestone, there are signs of hope that we may be beating back the virus. But a brighter future won't bring back precious lives lost.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Pien Huang
A doctor prepares to administer a vaccine injection at New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital on Friday.

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  • National

U.S. Records More Than 4,000 Dead In 1 Day From COVID-19, A Grim New Record

The U.S. hit more than 4,000 deaths on Jan. 7, which also saw 274,703 new infections, according to Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. continues to lead the world in both cases and deaths.

January 08, 2021
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By:
  • Mark Katkov
White flags planted by volunteers visualize lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19 as part of an installation by artist Suzanne Firstenberg in Washington, D.C. The death toll has now reached 300,000.

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  • Health

How Do We Grieve 300,000 Lives Lost?

Eleven months into the COVID-19 crisis, an unimaginable death toll has been reached. NPR spoke to doctors, nurses and the bereaved about how they face loss every day.

December 14, 2020
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By:
  • Will Stone
Health care workers in Houston, Texas, perform a procedure on a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Thanksgiving. This past week has seen continued steep growth in cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.

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  • Health

'Extraordinary Acceleration': Takeaways From The Pandemic Last Week

Deaths from COVID-19 have jumped nearly 40% this week, and hospitals around the country are straining under their patient load. Here's what happened in the first week after Thanksgiving.

December 06, 2020
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By:
  • Will Stone
Ricardo Leon Luna, 74, lowers his mask as Doctors Delia Caudillo, right, and Monserrat Castaneda, prepare to take throat and nasal swabs as they conduct a COVID-19 test in his home in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City, on Thursday.

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  • Latin America

Mexico Surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths

The milestone comes just two days after the country reported one million confirmed coronavirus infections. Mexico is only the fourth country to surpass 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.

November 20, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Medical staff members check on a patient at the COVID-19 ICU in United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Cases and hospitalizations rose dramatically in the U.S. this week.

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  • Health

The Pandemic Is Entering A Dangerous New Chapter. Here Are The Week's Big Takeaways

With record cases and hospitalizations and newly rising deaths, experts wonder, will this surge ever slow down? Find out where the virus is hitting hardest and what is being done to stop it.

November 13, 2020
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  • Will Stone
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