Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. Heart disease, cancer and unintentional injuries — a category of deaths ...

COVID-19 killed far fewer Americans in 2023 than 2022, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The percentage of people who died from the disease ...

After years of being in the top five leading causes of death in the U.S., COVID-19 dropped to tenth in 2023, according to provisional data. "That's a pretty dramatic change," Ahmad told MedPage Today, ...

COVID-19 is no longer a top cause of death for Americans, dropping from fourth place in 2022 to 10th place last year. The disease was listed on 49,928 death certificates in 2023 — down from 186,552 in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement this year. Death rates fell last year for almost all leading ...

In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, researchers used provisional data on deaths to examine mortality trends that can inform public health interventions and policies. Provisional data ...

National COVID-19 memorial wall for the five-year anniversary on March 11, 2025, in London, England. Andrew Aitchison/In Pictures via Getty Images In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Vaccination in nursing homes led to a decrease in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 in the two years that followed the height of the pandemic, according to a report published Tuesday in ...