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COVID-19 death rates varied dramatically across US, major analysis finds

"We can invest in programs that protect the communities that we see disproportionately affected by the pandemic," said co-lead author Emma Castro, a researcher at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, in the video commentary.  

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The pandemic at 3

Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington have mapped out some scenarios that weigh vaccine uptake, fading protection and antiviral use, among other factors, to project what we can expect across the globe through the end of June.

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What worked against COVID: Masks, closures and vaccines

Despite these limitations, three independent analyses of excess mortality—by the World Health Organization, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the Economist—reach similar conclusions. In the first three years of the pandemic, more than 20 million excess deaths occurred globally.

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The winter COVID wave that wasn't: Why the US didn't see a surge

"We did not see a wave because we had a very high immunity due to infections and vaccinations," Dr. Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist with the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, told ABC News. "Omicron and its subvariants did not spare anyone. Also, many of the infections were minor and not reported or did not end in a hospitalization."

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One nation, under gun violence: America tops 100 mass shootings in 2023

The rate in the US is eight times greater than in Canada, which has the seventh highest rate of gun ownership in the world; 22 times higher than in the European Union and 23 times greater than in Australia, according to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation data from 2019.

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Infected in the first wave, they navigated long COVID without a roadmap

According to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, in the first two years of the pandemic women were twice as likely as men to develop long COVID, and 15% of all of those affected at three months continued to experience symptoms beyond 12 months.

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Past COVID infection lowers risk of hospitalisation, death: Study

“Omicron has been able to evade past immunity and infect you, but fortunately not necessarily cause severe disease and death,” said Christopher Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

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One in 20 US homicides are committed by police – and the numbers aren’t falling

In Europe, the combined number of police killings and state executions remains in the single digits each year in many countries, according to data from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The US’s annual rate of police killings and state executions, with more than 1,000 deaths a year, is more comparable to Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Cameroon, Libya and Sudan, according to IHME data.

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Goodbye, Johns Hopkins covid tracker

“Hopkins filled a gap that nobody else was able to do,” Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at University of Washington’s IHME. “So all of us, reporters, us in academia, we went to Hopkins to get the data.”

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Coronavirus Today: Outdoor dining in jeopardy

It’s been awhile since we’ve invoked the term “grim milestone,” but the occasion calls for it: The number of reported coronavirus cases in California now exceeds 12 million. That figure would have seemed unthinkable early in the pandemic, when we struggled to believe that the COVID-19 forecasting tool from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation was accurate in projecting that the number of cases could reach 1 million.

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Infographic: A global look at cancer

In 2019, more than 10 million people died from cancer around the world, making it the second leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

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¿México, eres tú? Esperanza de vida en países violentos puede bajar hasta 14 años

El estudio está basado en el uso masivo de datos y se fundamenta, en parte, en estimaciones de mortalidad modeladas por el proyecto Global Burden of Disease, puesto que muchas de las poblaciones incluidas no tienen información demográfica directa sobre la mortalidad, precisa Ikerbasque en una nota de prensa.