The primary fairly full dying information for December 2023 appears to indicate that whole U.S. mortality, for individuals of all ages from all causes, was significantly increased than the pre-pandemic norm.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put state studies of 57,668 deaths within the desk it makes use of to find out whether or not the proportion of deaths from flu, pneumonia and COVID-19 is at or above the pandemic threshold.
The December 2023 dying whole was 13% increased than the overall for December 2019, earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic got here to gentle, and 17% increased than the overall for December 2018.
One other, separate stream of information, primarily based on figures that states ship to a workforce on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, exhibits that hospitals reported 717 deaths of individuals with COVID-19 for the week ending Jan. 20.
