As Emergency Ends, a Look at Covid’s U.S. Death Toll
Since the coronavirus pandemic began more than three years ago, the United States has suffered wave after wave of loss. The expiration of the federal declaration of the Covid-19 public health emergency on Thursday signals a new outlook on the disease, and it presents a moment to look back at the toll the virus has taken.
This map shows where people have died of Covid at the highest rates. Few places were left untouched.
Covid-19 deaths per 100,000 people
Note: Data as of May 10, 2023, through the week ending May 3, 2023.
The pace of deaths has slowed greatly since early last year, but the toll has continued to climb. More than 1.1 million people have died.
1,131,729 dead
As of May 3, 2023
All U.S. adults
eligible for vaccine
First report of
a U.S. death on
Feb. 29
First vaccines
administered
in Dec. 2020
While deaths are at the lowest level since March 2020, Covid still takes the lives of a thousand people every week.
Deaths peaked before
widespread vaccination
25 thousand deaths per week
And the disease remains among the leading causes of death in the United States.
Chronic respiratory
diseases
Alzheimer’s disease
Note: *Accidents (unintentional injuries) were the third leading cause of death in 2022 but are not included in the 2023 preliminary ranking because injury-related causes of death are publicly released with a lag of six months from the date of death. Data for 2022 and 2023 is provisional.
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