Health
US “excess deaths” in 2020 surpassed the toll during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic – WSWS
A New York Times analysis of US death patterns shows that the death rate in year one of the COVID-19 pandemic was the highest above normal ever recorded in the…
According to a report published Friday by the New York Times, in 2020 the United States suffered the biggest single-year surge in its death rate since the federal government began publishing statistics, significantly surpassing the rise in the death rate during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.
Workers burying bodies in a mass grave on Hart Island, April 9, 2020. (Credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo)
The Times conducted its own analysis of annual US death rates going back a century and found that the rate…
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