He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more. ... mostly children under the age of 5—a death toll described by the CDC as "unacceptable" in a statement.

The 2023-24 flu season was particularly deadly. “Not all children whose death was related to an influenza virus infection may have been tested for influenza,” a CDC memo from Nov. 22 reads ...

The issue burst into public view after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. The official death toll was in the dozens, but survivors and local officials on the ground questioned whether that ...

Each year, the CDC releases a list of the leading causes of death among U.S. adults. USA FACTS took a deep dive into the latest data and shared mortality trends.

Covid has dropped from the third leading cause of death in the US in 2020 and 2021 to the 10th leading cause of death in preliminary data from 2023, the CDC noted. That’s still a far higher toll ...

Using CDC data (including provisional figures for 2021), we see that the rate of deaths among Americans under the age of 25 rose 2.5 percent between the average value in 2018 and 2019 and the ...

COVID-19's toll increases to 244,986 when including fatalities where doctors or coroners also listed it as a "contributing cause of death" or "part of the chain of events leading to death." ...

Fewer children in the U.S. have gotten a flu vaccine in 2024 compared to last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of Nov. 30, about 36 p… ...