COVID-19

Use this tool to understand the effects of the pandemic on health care and health seeking behavior, attitudes and practices around vaccinations, education, and household financial and food security.

Explore forecasts of demand for hospital services, reported and excess deaths due to COVID-19, rates of infection and testing, and the impact of social distancing and mask use.

See development assistance for the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine.

View areas of the US that would benefit most from increased vaccination acceptance.

Over the past 70 years, the world has enjoyed remarkably sustained progress in lowering child and adult mortality.

Development assistance for health for pandemic preparedness and response peaked in 2020 at over $1 billion.

Since 2010, the world succeeded in halving the burden of many diseases such as HIV/AIDS and diarrhea and slashing the disease burden from injuries by a quarter after accounting for differences in age and population size across countries.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most severe drops in life expectancy seen in 50+ years.

IHME's Dr. Alize Ferrari shares the latest findings from GBD 2021, showing how the COVID-19 pandemic changed trends in global health from the last 30 years.

Measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 also worked to prevent other lower respiratory infections, like influenza and RSV. IHME Associate Professor Dr. Hmwe Hmwe Kyu shares new findings from the Global Burden of Disease study.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on health trends in 2020 and 2021, becoming the second-leading cause of death around the world. Dr. Mohsen Naghavi shares these findings and more from the latest Global Burden of Disease study.

IHME faculty member Theo Vos presents on the research agenda for long COVID as part of the EU-US Conference on Long COVID.