by Alexa Lardier, Daily Mail:
Covid was to blame for just 1 percent of weekly deaths from all causes across the US in the most recent week, CDC data shows.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Covid dashboard shows 324 Covid deaths were registered in the week ending August 19 – making up just 1.7 percent of the overall fatalities that week.
For comparison, the virus was behind one in three deaths from all causes at America’s pandemic peak in 2021.
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Just 1.7 percent of the 324 deaths from all causes during the week ending Aug. 19 listed the virus
The primary or underlying cause of death is defined as the disease, situation or event that initiated the chain of events directly resulting in death. PICTURED: People wearing masks wait to enter the Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, in July 2020
The percentage of Covid deaths in the week ending Aug. 19 represents a slight increase from the previous week and continues a five-week upward trend, but is a drastic decline from the peak of the pandemic, when 30 percent of deaths listed Covid as a cause.
The dashboard shows Washington, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland and New York all have higher rates of deaths due to Covid. Maryland and Florida have the highest, at 3.4 percent.
Washington, Tennessee, North Carolina and New York all hover around 2 percent.
Data also shows the death rate is slightly higher among women than men, and death rates are highest in people 75 years and older.
The new Covid data will be reassuring at a time when panic is rising across the US as highly transmissible new Covid variants circulate, leading to more infections and hospitalizations and causing the reimplementation of some Covid mandates.
New variants EG.5, or Eris, and BA.8.26, or Pirola, have been detected in several countries around the globe and in the US recently.
These variants are highly mutated and thought to be better at avoiding vaccine and natural immunity, causing more infections.
