More than 1,200 people in the United States are dying from Covid-19 each day. Naoko Muramatsu, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Public Health, said that from the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, older people have suffered disproportionately. Some 75 percent of the 800,000 Covid-19 deaths have involved people 65 or older. The pace of deaths slowed throughout summer 2020, then quickened throughout the fall and winter, and then slowed again this spring and summer. The benchmark of 800,000 deaths in the United States occurred despite the wide availability of vaccines for most of 2021.

Source: The Times December 18, 2021 23:32 UTC