Link:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/01/science/covid-deaths-united-states.html
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“We’ve finally started getting to a stage where most of the population has been exposed either to a vaccine or the virus multiple times by now,” said Dr. David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Referring to American and European death rates, he continued, “I think we’re now likely to start seeing things be more synchronized going forward.”
Still, the United States faces certain steep disadvantages, ones that experts worry could cause problems during future Covid waves, and even the next pandemic. Many Americans have health problems like obesity and diabetes that increase the risk of severe Covid.
Author(s): Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz
Publication Date: 1 Feb 2022
Publication Site: NYT