U.S. COVID-19 death rate is 50% higher than the combined rate for high-income countries worldwide, as well as the combined rates in South America, Europe, Asia or Africa.
Two years ago, COVID-19 was killing Western Europeans faster than Americans. Even in early 2021, the virus wasn’t taking U.S. lives at the clip it was in the United Kingdom, Italy or Belgium.By November, after the delta variant swept through the country, the United States’ overall death rate shot past its European peers as well as its neighbor to the south, Mexico. This month, as the U.S.
“The main driver of our higher mortality is we did not adhere to mandates on social mobility, wearing masks, and other countries did a much better job,” he said. “And second, we had a lot of deaths after we had vaccines.”More than 400,000 of those 1 million U.S. deaths came after May 2021 when COVID-19 vaccines became widely available here to all adults – and they came, in large part, because many Americans have avoided the shots.
Things were different at first. In May 2020 the U.S. death rate was half that of Italy – hit hard in one of the world’s worst early outbreaks, according to Johns Hopkins University figures compiled byBut by last November, the U.S. death rate had eclipsed that of Italy, as well as Belgium, the U.K. and Mexico.
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