Who’s at the peak? COVID-19 has hit some countries far harder than others, though differences in the way infections are counted locally make it impossible to make a perfect apples-to-apples ...

COVID-19 fatality doubling time was similarly compared across 27 countries and used for estimating death counts by age in Israel as a case in point. RESULTS First, COVID-19 mortality increases ...

By then, the death toll had risen to 102 ... What have researchers learned about the infection fatality rate for COVID-19? The picture remains hazy. A rough calculation, assuming that 80 percent ...

The fatality rate among people in their 60s ... Labor and Welfare will take into account the reduced death deaths as it discusses whether to reclassify COVID-19 into a less-severe contagious ...

Are health officials saying COVID-19 was actually the proximate cause of death? That it may have exacerbated underlying health problems? That such comorbidities would not have killed the decedents ...

COVID-19 death rates vary by race and ethnicity in a US data set. The rate in Indigenous groups is double that for the white population, for instance. Source: CDC The state of an individual’s ...

Africa, a continent of 1.3 billion people, has seen fewer deaths from COVID-19 than ... the lowest death rates, comparable to Asia . Only Oceania has a lower death rate.

Chart: Axios Visuals The death toll among incarcerated people in the U.S. increased at a rate more than three times higher than among the general population during the worst phase of the COVID-19 ...

Chart: Axios Visuals More Texas prisoners died during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic than in any other state, but the true death toll in prisons across the country is still unknown ...