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3 charts show why Hong Kong is suffering the deadliest Omicron wave in the world right now
Most of the deaths in Hong Kong are in patients who are over 80, and unvaccinated. Until Omicron ap…
Hilary Brueck,Andy Kiersz
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Top WHO official laments abuse, death threats against scientists: 'Being a younger female, I'm an easy target'
Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead for COVID-19, said she's "still trying to wrap my head aro…
Aria Bendix
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Getting fully vaccinated massively reduces your chance of dying from COVID-19, a new real-world study suggests
COVID-19 accounted for 0.8% of deaths among fully vaccinated people in England, compared with 37% f…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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The world has lost 20.5 million years of life because of premature COVID-19 deaths, a new study found
To determine how many years of life the pandemic took, researchers compared the ages of people who …
Aria Bendix
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1 million people have died from COVID-19 in Europe, a top World Health Organization doctor said
WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge revealed the data while speaking to reporters in Greece…
Kelly McLaughlin
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The US saw the largest single-year decline in life expectancy in 2020 since World War II, a CDC report found
Researchers say it may take a few years for the average life expectancy to bounce back to pre-pande…
Aria Bendix
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Rich countries hoarding COVID-19 vaccines are making a mistake that could worsen their own death tolls, experts say
By vaccinating those in wealthy nations at the expense of the most vulnerable in poorer countries, …
Sinéad Baker
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Peru's COVID-19 death toll more than doubled after a government review, making it the country with the world's highest death rate per capita
The new figure comes after Peru updated its definition for COVID-19 related deaths to include "prob…
Marianne Guenot
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The world has reported more COVID-19 deaths in 2021 than in 2020, and it's only June
Johns Hopkins University data analyzed by The Wall Street Journal indicates the official 2021 coron…
Sinéad Baker
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Pfizer CEO predicts 'constant waves' of COVID-19 because of complacency about the coronavirus and politicization of the pandemic
The consequences of people's hesitancy to wear masks and get vaccinated will likely be seen over th…
Grace Dean
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The UK now has the highest coronavirus death rate in the world
The UK has recorded the highest coronavirus death rate in the world, according to new analysis.
Thomas Colson
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Brazil faces the coronavirus abyss. It has the highest daily deaths in the world and the COVID-19 crisis is going to get worse, experts warn.
Brazil has far more daily COVID-19 deaths than any other nation in the world. President Bolsonaro's…
Joshua Zitser
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Coronavirus death toll in China crosses 1,000
Beijing, Feb 11 () The death toll in China due to the novel coronavirus epidemic has crossed 1,000,…
PTI
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The UK's COVID-19 death toll has passed 100,000, one of the worst in the world
A new variant of COVID-19 is partly behind a rise in cases in the UK over the winter, with the UK o…
Tom Porter
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The World Health Organization urges people to stop playing fast and loose with the pandemic as coronavirus cases and deaths soar
WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove says the US had 4.4 million new COVID-19 cases last week, com…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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WHO is unable to see an end to the Coronavirus epidemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it is "way too early" to predict the end of the c…
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Vitamin D isn't an effective COVID-19 treatment, but scientists haven't ruled out its relationship to severe disease
Vitamin D shortened a COVID-19 patient's hospital stay, but there's no evidence that taking vitamin…