December 6, 2025 | 10:28 AM
tag | death
October 19, 2022 | 5:00 AM
How well a death in Pennsylvania will be investigated depends largely on where someone dies
July 17, 2021 | 7:17 AM
U.S. COVID deaths are rising again. Experts call it a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’
The seven-day average of new cases has increased by nearly 70% to almost 30,000 per day
May 6, 2021 | 4:30 PM
New study estimates more than 900,000 people have died of COVID-19 in U.S.
Researchers at the University of Washington looked at excess mortality from March 2020 through May 3, 2021, compared it with what would be expected in a typical nonpandemic year, then adjusted those figures to account for a handful of other pandemic-related factors.
March 8, 2021 | 5:29 AM
Jill Biden sees teachable moment in the depths of a pandemic
The first lady seems intent on turning every aspect of her new job into an opportunity, for that matter, especially anything related to her triple passions for education, fighting cancer and supporting military families.
February 18, 2021 | 7:36 AM
American life expectancy dropped by a full year in the first half of 2020
Deaths from COVID-19 are the main factor in the overall drop in U.S. life expectancy between January and June 2020, the CDC says. But it's not the only one: a surge in drug overdose deaths are a part of the decline, too.
January 8, 2021 | 8:18 AM
Police confirm death of officer injured during attack on Capitol
U.S. Capitol Police announced late Thursday that an officer hurt during this week's violent assault on the chambers of Congress by protesters loyal to President Trump has died from his injuries.
December 14, 2020 | 4:17 PM
How do we grieve 300,000 lives lost?
It’s equivalent to 9/11 happening nearly one hundred times. One person now dies every 36 seconds from COVID-19.
October 14, 2020 | 5:49 AM
Americans are dying in the pandemic at rates far higher than in other countries
A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that over the last 5 months per capita deaths in the U.S., both from COVID-19 and other causes have been far greater than in 18 other high-income countries.
September 24, 2020 | 5:48 AM
Pa.’s failure to mandate quicker death reporting before the coronavirus fueled wild data fluctuations, mistrust
An investigation found state health officials abandoned their urgency in implementing a faster process, leaving them ill-prepared to accurately report death data when the pandemic arrived.
