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The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, including the number of deaths and the government's response
There was never a single, sweeping presidential order that forced every American to wear a mask everywhere; federal action on masking during COVID took narrower forms — guidance from the CDC, and Bide...
Male life expectancy in the United States has rebounded from pandemic-era lows but remains uneven across states: national male life expectancy hovered around 75.8 years in the most recent CDC reportin...
In 2020 the largest absolute increases in deaths from COVID‑19 were concentrated in the most populous states—California recorded the biggest jump in raw deaths (an increase of just over 50,000 versus ...
Across 2019–2022 the pandemic produced the steepest single‑year declines in male life expectancy in U.S. history and a partial rebound in 2022, but the public reporting available in these sources does...
Title 42 was a pandemic-era public health authority used to expel migrants at the U.S. land borders without asylum screening; the Biden administration maintained and then ended the practice in 2023, p...
The United States saw an unprecedented rise in all‑cause deaths in 2020 tied to the COVID‑19 pandemic: total deaths rose about 19% between 2019 and 2020 (nationwide) while the age‑adjusted death rate ...
The balance of peer-reviewed panels and investigative reviews finds that U.S. outcomes in 2020–21 were substantially worse than comparable wealthy countries and that policy choices during the Trump ad...
Inflation in the United States surged to a peak near 9% in 2022 (9.1% in June 2022 is commonly reported) after a low-inflation period before 2020, the jump reflecting a mix of pandemic-era demand stim...