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On March 17, the number of cases rose to 160. Officials announced the first death related to COVID-19, a woman in her 60s from Chicago; a retired South Side nurse, the woman had an underlying condition later revealed to be asthma, and died at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
A waiver extension that provides for reimbursement of home hospital care through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expires on Dec. 31, 2024.
The South Bronx is particularly affected. Asthma is the leading cause of hospitalizations and school absences for Bronx children (Warman et al., 2009). In 2016, there were 42,712 asthma related emergency room admissions in New York City for children ages 0–17.
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Rates of asthma rates in 2017 [1] As of 2011, approximately 235 million people worldwide were affected by asthma, [2] and roughly 250,000 people die per year from asthma-related causes. [3] Low and middle income countries make up more than 80% of the mortality. [4] Prevalences vary between countries from 1% to 18%. [3]
'The pandemic has exacerbated this trend' The health of a region’s economy is generally correlated with the size of its population, and the pandemic saw major population changes across the country.
A year into the pandemic, a half-million Americans (1 out of every 670 Americans) had died of COVID-19. [1] Many people were affected by grief and loss. By the time a half-million Americans had died, one-third of Americans participating in a survey said they personally knew someone who had died this way.