One Million in US Have Died of Covid in Grim Pandemic Marker

According to one tally, at least 1 million people in the US have died from Covid-19, which continues to kill hundreds of Americans every day.

The death total was marked by the University. It can take days or weeks for some Covid-19 statistics to be adjusted, so the actual number of dead is almost certainly already higher. The strain put on hospital systems by the outbreak that may have caused other deaths are not accounted for.

• To mark 1 million deaths, Bloomberg wrote about how measurements of the virus will need to change in the next phase of the pandemic. You can read the story in Businessweek.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 300 Americans die of Covid-19 each day, far less than during the worst of the epidemic. The average daily deaths peaked at 3,400 in January of 2021. The omicron wave that started in the late winter of 2021 and continued into this year had a daily death toll of about 2,700.

Since then, the U.S. has dropped many public health restrictions, such as requiring face masks on airlines and other forms of transit, though a rise in cases and hospitalizations in places such as New York may lead to back-tracking on those policies. The country has grappled with how to measure the Pandemic and how to judge the Covid risk at a time when many people arevaccinated.

According to an estimate released May 5 by the World Health Organization, about 15 million deaths have been caused by the H1N1 virus. The U.S. has one of the worst per-capita death rates in the world.

Read more about the coverage of the Covid-19 epidemic.