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 ...

A steep drop in Covid-19 deaths helped the overall death rate in the United States fall 6% in 2023, according to provisional data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...

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 ...

WHO estimates 22.1 million excess deaths globally linked to Covid-19 from 2020 to 2023 Excess deaths include direct Covid fatalities and indirect deaths from healthcare disruptions Only one-third of ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved an updated coronavirus vaccine manufactured by Novavax Friday, days after new mRNA coronavirus vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna started ...