COVID Emergency Over, but Hundreds Are Still Dying Weekly

SOURCES:

Traci Sikes, Vancouver, WA.

Sabila Khan, co-founder, Covid-19 Loss Support for Family & Friends Facebook group.

Carla Sevin, MD, director, Pulmonary Patient Care Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville.

David Putrino, PhD, director, rehabilitation innovation, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, N.Y.

NPR: “Joe Biden says the COVID-19 pandemic is over. This is what the data tells us.”

CDC: “Covid Data Tracker.”

PNAS: “Tracking the reach of COVID-19 kin loss with a bereavement multiplier applied to the United States.”

CDC: “Life Expectancy in the U.S. Dropped for the Second Year in a Row in 2021,” “COVID-19: People With Certain Medical Conditions.”

WHO: “Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard.”

Journal of Public Health: “Years of life lost associated with COVID-19 deaths in the USA during the first year of the pandemic.”

The New York Times: “The Aftermath of a Pandemic Requires as Much Focus as the Start,” “My Patients Will Not Be the Same. None of Us Will.”

JAMA Network Open: “Variation in COVID-19 Mortality in the US by Race and Ethnicity and Educational Attainment.”

PLOS Medicine: “Variation in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: A cross-sectional study.”

The Associated Press: “Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts.”