Even as Chinese citizens mourn their loved ones and hearses pile up outside overworked crematoriums, the Chinese Communist government claimed there were absolutely zero fatalities from coronavirus on Tuesday. In fact, Communist officials retracted one of only seven deaths they have admitted to over the past two weeks.
Birx added that the risk for serious illness among the majority of Americans was low but that they could transmit the disease to the elderly.
The coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in Italy despite a near-total lockdown on residents’ movements and interaction.
The Centers for Disease Control said 18,000 people have died from influenza and related pneumonia in the United States this season.
A Hong Kong-based news outlet called Initium Media alleged on Wednesday that the Chinese Communist government is secretly cremating victims of the Wuhan coronavirus to keep the death toll down.
American life expectancy declined again last year according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), adding up to the worst four-year decline since 1915-1918, when mortality rates were driven by the infamous meat grinder of World War One and a deadly flu pandemic.
A new study by researchers at the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) found the triple-digit number of maternal deaths reported in the state during 2012 were, in fact, wrong, inflated, and, likely the result of incorrect coding.
The CDC announced that the number of people seeking treatment for flu-like symptoms was the highest percentage since 2009.
Here is some promising news about the nation’s much-ignored drug disaster: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump confirmed that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will head up a national task force to combat the deadly opioid epidemic.
Medicaid is gently tugging tens of thousands of healthy Americans to their early deaths each year, according to analysts who are trying to explain the massive and unprecedented spike in deaths among middle-aged Americans in post-industrial America.
Welfare is much worse than a way of life for many Americans—it now appears to be a new way of death, according to an expanding body of data and social studies.
In a melancholy companion piece to the announcement that America’s mortality rate is rising, the Wall Street Journal reports that fewer Americans in 2015 gave birth to new life.
Health experts are now stunned by a rise in the nation’s overall death rates — the first in a decade, and really one of the few in a quarter-century that didn’t have a fairly clear explanation.
White people are suddenly dying much younger than before, and each new set of data shows the toll reaching much farther than ever imagined by our best-and-brightest, secular, Ivy League, technocratic, would-be guardians throughout the federal government.
A researcher who investigated the new study that shows increased death rates among middle-aged, middle-class whites has revealed something even more jarring — since 2005, all the extra dead were women, not men.
The death rate for middle-aged white people is rising, even as it also falls for other demographics, and even though the overall health of older people is rising, says a new study.
