COVID-19 deaths in the United States were likely undercounted in official statistics during the first 30 months of the pandemic, according to a new scientific paper from a national team that includes ...

World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is pointing to holiday gatherings and a rapidly spreading variant as reasons behind a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths ...

COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. are plateauing, with an average of 40,000 hospitalizations recorded per day, a similar level to the early fall, reports The New York Times. To get a clearer ...

The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. surpassed 200,000 midday Sept. 22, around seven months after the first known U.S. death was recorded. The U.S. makes up 4 percent of the world’s population, but ...

A WHO-appointed expert group released its final report on the origins of COVID-19, saying there is still no definitive answer. Most scientific evidence supports animal-to-human transmission, but a lab ...

Data showed St. Petersburg recorded 1,552 more deaths in May than last year New mortality data from Saint Petersburg, Russia, has renewed questions about whether Russia’s real death toll from the ...

An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.

Biostatisticians and epidemiologists will play a role in solving the coronavirus crisis and helping to normalize our world. These professionals, who use standard statistical processes to address ...