The New York Times narrated the path to one million Covid deaths in…
mortality
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Reaching 1 million deaths
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Scale of one million deaths
The United States is about to reach one million confirmed Covid deaths, or…
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Increasing mortality baseline
There was a time not that long ago when a hundred covid deaths…
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When There Were More Deaths Than Births in the U.S.
The two counts have been getting closer to each other. The past couple of years accelerated the process.
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Death rates by vaccination booster status
Our World in Data continues their important work on providing and showing up-to-date…
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Clock shows percentage of life lived so far
Shortlife is a clock by artist Dries Depoorter that simply shows the percentage…
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Increased maternal death in the United States
While still relatively rare, maternal mortality in the United States increased over the…
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Americans are dying too much
Derek Thompson for The Atlantic highlights recent research comparing mortality in America against…
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Black mortality gap
Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…
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Dot density to show Covid-19 deaths over time
The United States passed 425,000 coronavirus deaths this week. For The New York…
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Lifelines
Using estimates from a report by the Well Being Trust and the Robert…
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Covid-19, the third leading cause of death
For Scientific American, Youyou Zhou made a line chart that shows cause of…
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Multiple Causes of Death
There’s a 6 percent figure from the CDC that could be easily misinterpreted. Here’s what it means.
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Gaps between mortality rates for black and white Americans
For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek charted the gaps between white and black mortality…
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Comparing the coronavirus to past deadly events
One way to estimate the impact of the coronavirus is to compare it…
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Possible coronavirus deaths compared against other causes
Based on estimates from public health researcher James Lawler, The Upshot shows the…
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With terminal cancer, a patient tracks drug dose in a dashboard over her final days
Kelly Martin died of cancer on September 30. She was able to enjoy…
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Heatmap shows deaths by age in different countries
This interactive heatmap by Jonas Schöley shows mortality rates by age. Just use…
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Years of life lost due to breathing bad air
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute estimated the number of…
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Shifting Causes of Death
The most common causes of death changed over the years. They vary across sex and age group. This animation shows the details of these changes.

















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