US Unprecedented Excess Death Toll Keeps Climbing

Excess deaths from heart disease, high blood pressure, dementia and other illnesses continue to rise during the pandemic, but health officials are only focusing on COVID-19.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• More than 1 million excess deaths have been recorded since the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly two years ago

• These deaths are not all due to COVID-19, as higher numbers of deaths from heart disease, high blood pressure, dementia and other illnesses occurred during the pandemic

• In separate research, a 22.9% increase in all-cause mortality w…