The number of Covid-19 deaths in the US in the next two years surpasses the number of deaths in 2020 according to data from JohnHopkins University.
The Brooklyn Hospital Center has a refrigerated truck that can serve as a make shift mortuary. ANGELA WEISS/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
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There were over three hundred thousand Covid-19-related deaths in 2020 by the CDC, and over three hundred thousand deaths this year by John Hopkins University.
The CDC shows 382,861 deaths so far this year, but it only includes deaths after reports have been received and processed by the National Center for Health Statistics.
The official tally of Covid-19 deaths in 2020 is believed to be undercount due to a lack of testing capacity.
According to CDC data, Mississippi has the highest Covid-19 death rate in the US, with 343 deaths per 100,000 people. Vermont has a Covid-19 death rate of 61 deaths per 100,000 people.
The number is big.
Over 47 million. The total number of Covid-19 cases reported in the U.S. since the start of the Pandemic has been reported by the CDC.
The key background.
The CDC reported an average of 2,000 deaths per day during the first seven days of the Pandemic around March and April. The number of cases and deaths spiked around the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, with 7-day averages topping out at over 3000 deaths and over 230,000 Covid-19 cases. The number of Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. increased again in September, but the moving average was lower than previous increases, thanks to the protective effect of Covid vaccines.
The U.S. has passed over a million covid Fatalities.
5 million people have been killed by Covid. Most of those deaths are accounted for by six countries.
