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Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic

The phenomenon of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the challenges of measuring and estimating the true number of deaths.

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Jan 24, 2026
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How many total COVID-19 deaths have been recorded in the United States through 2025?

No single number for “ through 2025” can be confidently extracted from the reporting provided here, because the supplied sources describe the surveillance systems, modeling efforts, and caveats about ...

Jan 16, 2026
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How much did COVID-19 versus drug overdoses each contribute to the drop in U.S. male life expectancy in 2020–2021?

Male life expectancy in the United States fell about one full year between 2020 and 2021; federal decomposition of that decline attributes roughly half of the loss to COVID-19 and about one-tenth to d...

Jan 28, 2026
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How do Minnesota death rates by race/ethnicity compare to national rates for the same age groups?

’s racial and ethnic mortality picture tracks some —people of color suffered higher COVID-era and excess mortality overall—but it diverges in important ways: the principal split in Minnesota has been ...

Jan 28, 2026

Trump was the number one reason one million died of COVID in America.

The claim that “ was the number one reason one million died of in America” cannot be proven as a strict causal tally from the sources provided, but the record compiled by multiple outlets documents a ...

Jan 31, 2026

Which countries had the highest COVID-19 death tolls in 2020 and what were their counts?

Official tallies and independent trackers show that by the end of 2020 the largest reported were concentrated in a handful of countries, led by and several large middle-income countries; exact ranking...