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In the one-year period from April 2020–April 2021, over 100,000 people in the United States died of overdoses (of all types of drugs), compared with 78,000 fatal overdoses in the same period the previous year. [203] One reason may be that, as early as April 2020, social distancing measures posed difficulties for addiction recovery services. [204]
Data from the United States indicate that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are four times more likely to contract COVID and twice as likely to die from the disease; [83] this is likely due to the fact that people with disabilities are overrepresented in care facilities where COVID is known to spread more easily. People ...
On January 12, 2022, when the death toll had already reached 842,000, a CDC ensemble forecast predicted that 62,000 people would die over the next four weeks. [136] At the start of January 2023, when the US death toll had accumulated to over 1,120,000, the IHME projected that the death toll would reach 1,130,000 by April 1. [137]
The World Health Organization on Thursday released new estimates that show nearly 15 million people in the world have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic — far greater than the number of ...
The World Economic Forum published a report on the global gender gap in January 2020 that concludes gender parity will not be reached for 99.5 years. The report benchmarks 153 countries in four dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.
2020s: Culture Wars. Americans are still ideologically polarized, but the intervening century has made it harder to define the battlefronts of a culture war along strictly geographic lines.
Two Orange County teens died of COVID-19 this month, underscoring Omicron's heightened toll on kids across the nation. Omicron brought 'more severe disease in kids'; 2 Orange County teens died ...
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