The 12 Worst States for COVID-19 Wave Death Rates 2023-2024
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Death rates began to rise about four weeks later.
State hospitals and public health agencies are turning over less data on COVID and less data on deaths to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But HHS compilations of hospital data show COVID killed 19,877 more people in the week that ends. July 29, 2023 and the week ending March 23.
The weekly number of COVID deaths bottomed out at around 350 in July. From late July to late March, the country averaged about 564 COVID deaths per week, 61% more deaths per week than in mid-July.
Statewide, COVID death rates for the 2023-2024 wave went from 0 in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico and West Virginia to more than 20 deaths, compared to another 100,000 people in two states, with an average of 2. 7 from COVID. The reported deaths match those of another 100,000 people.
For the 12 states with the worst COVID death rates, check out the gallery above. For information on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, see the table below.
What it means: The United States averaged about 2. 8 million deaths compared to the year before COVID arrived in early 2020.
COVID no longer kills more than 500,000 people a year, but it still appears to kill about 30,000 people a year, or about the same number of people who die each year from diabetes without specific complications, according to CDC data on reasons of death for the era from 2018 to 2021.
All-cause deaths: The CDC compiles a separate dataset, on reports from state public fitness agencies, showing deaths from all causes.
Since some states take a long time to submit their knowledge to the CDC, it takes 3-4 weeks for the numbers to start being confirmed. The CDC’s most recent all-cause death counts were released on March 29.
For the period from late July to the week ending March 16, the CDC recorded 1. 86 million deaths from all causes.
The total number of deaths for this period is 13% higher than the total number of deaths in the United States for the comparable period from late July 2018 to late March 2019.
The death toll for 2024 remains high.
The CDC is now reporting 264,981 deaths during the 4 weeks ending Jan. 27, up 18% from what they reported during the first 4 weeks of 2019 on the same date in 2019.
During the four weeks ending Feb. 24, the CDC reported 239,834 deaths, up 12% from what it reported for the comparable year in 2019 at the same time in 2019.
The U. S. appears to be on track to record about 336,000 more deaths this year than in 2019, due to COVID, the effects of COVID on the physical care system, and higher mortality from other causes.
The overall increase in the number of deaths is comparable to that of the population of Boulder, Colorado. The increase is about twice as large as the number of U. S. citizens who have died from cases of core illnesses similar to hardening of the arteries, according to CDC records of death.
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