Experts believe the true burden of disease to be much higher. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the number of Covid-19 deaths in the US was about 32% higher than reported between February 2020 and September 2021.
For the past two weeks, there have been more than 2,000 new Covid-19 deaths reported each day in the US, according to Johns Hopkins.
The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020.
- The US reported its first 100,000 deaths about two and a half months later, by May 23, 2020, according to Johns Hopkins.
- There had been 200,000 deaths reported by about four months after that, by September 22, 2020.
- There were 300,000 deaths reported less than three months after that, by December 12, 2020.
- There were 400,000 deaths reported about a month later, by January 17, 2021.
- There were 500,000 deaths reported about another month after that, by February 21, 2021.
- There were 600,000 deaths reported about four months later, by June 16, 2021.
- There were 700,000 deaths reported about three and half months after that, by October 1, 2021.
- There were 800,000 deaths reported about two and a half months after that, by December 13, 2021.
- Now, less than two months later, the US has reported a total of 900,334 deaths.
More than a third of all reported deaths in the US happened last winter, between November 2020 and February 2021.
Unvaccinated adults have 97 times greater risk of dying from Covid-19 than adults who are fully vaccinated and boosted, according to the latest CDC data.
The risk of dying from Covid-19 is significantly higher for older people. In the US, more than three-quarters (76%) of people who have died from Covid-19 since the pandemic began have been 65 or older, including more than a quarter (28%) of deaths that have been among those 85 and older. About 150,000 nursing home residents and staff have died of Covid-19, according to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, accounting for about 15% of total Covid-19 deaths in the United States.
Globally, there have been more than 5.7 million reported Covid-19 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins data. The US accounts for about 5% of the world’s population but about 16% of Covid-19 deaths, more than any other country.
Covid-19 death rates are highest Mississippi and lowest in Hawaii.
Overall, more than one in five people in the US has been infected with Covid-19, with more than 76 million cases reported since the start of the pandemic.
