Pregnancy-related deaths for US mothers rose in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, with black women far more affected Data released by the US National Center for Health Statistics on Wednesday show a rise in pregnancy-related deaths for mothers across America in 2020, a growing trend that disproportionately affects non-white women. There were 861 […]
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US youth mortality rate twice as high as other wealthy nations – report
A new report on the disproportionate death rate found that accidents, suicides, and homicides kill twice as many young people in the US as in other wealthy nations While youth and infant mortality rates have declined across the developed world, they’ve remained stagnant or even increased in the US, according to a new report by […]
Bill Gates predicts Covid-19 mortality rate
American billionaire Bill Gates has claimed Covid-19 deaths and infections may drop below seasonal flu levels next year as more people get vaccinated and treatment improves, unless we encounter a new, more deadly variant. Speaking on Thursday in a virtual interview at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, founder of Microsoft stated that vaccines, […]
Minus 2 years of life: Study compares mortality impact of Covid pandemic to WWII aftermath, shows life expectancy drop globally
The coronavirus pandemic “triggered significant mortality increases” last year across Europe, in the US and Latin America, a study from Oxford scientists shows. The virus has cut life expectancy by as much as 2.2 years. Life expectancy, or the average age to which a newborn would live if current death rates continued throughout its lifespan, […]