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Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-04): The U.S. on Wednesday surpassed 1 million Covid-19 deaths, according to data compiled by NBC News — a once unthinkable scale of loss even for the country with the world's highest recorded toll from the virus. [...] Now, more than two years and 999,999 fatalities later, the U.S. death toll is the world's highest total by a significant margin, figures show. In a distant second is Brazil, which has recorded just over 660,000 confirmed Covid deaths. [...] Per capita, the U.S. ranks 18th worldwide in Covid deaths, while Peru has the highest number. Still, many see the staggering death toll as evidence of America’s inadequate response to the crisis.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-17): More than one million people have now died of Covid-19 in the US since the pandemic’s start, according to Tuesday data from Johns Hopkins University – a reminder the pandemic is not over even as much of the country pushes to move away from Covid-19 measures. [...] The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the number of Covid-19 deaths in the US was about 32% higher than reported between February 2020 and September 2021. Provisional data from the CDC also shows the US surpassed the death milestone during the week ending on May 14, and a CNN analysis of data released by the agency shows that severe outcomes disproportionately affected older Americans and minority populations. [...] Last week, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation marking a million deaths and ordered the American flag to fly half-staff, writing that the nation "must not grow numb to such sorrow."
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-02-06): COVID-19 variants were responsible for approximately 460,000 deaths in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, according to a new preprint study released this week by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and Public Citizen. [...] "Two years ago, the U.S. recording 100,000 COVID-19 deaths was rightfully described as ‘An Incalculable Loss’ on the front page of The New York Times. The fact that the Omicron variant alone exceeded that mark in a few months is really at odds with the idea that ‘Omicron is mild’ and this is now just an ordinary seasonal virus," said Jo Walker, an infectious disease epidemiology PhD candidate at the Yale School of Public Health who led the analysis. "What will next winter, or the next time a new variant emerges, look like if we scale back, rather than strengthen, our ability to respond to the virus?" "The story of how the U.S. reached one million deaths cannot be fully told without understanding the global pandemic," said Zain Rizvi, research director at Public Citizen and a co-author of the study. "Ending global vaccine and treatment inequity can help protect American lives. We are only as safe as our neighbors."
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-12): While much of the United States has nearly returned to life as normal, Americans received a sobering reminder Thursday about the toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken, as the country surpassed 1 million deaths from the virus, President Joe Biden said. What You Need To Know - The United States has surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19, President Joe Biden said Thursday - One million lives lost — that’s roughly the population of San Jose, California, and far exceeds the number of deaths the U.S. suffered in World War I and every war since, combined - And the true death toll might be even higher — the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates the number is actually 1,298,064 when unreported virus deaths are factored in - More than half of the 1 million deaths have come in the past 12 months despite vaccines being available to all American adults in that time [...] One million lives lost. That’s roughly the population of San Jose, California. It far exceeds the number of deaths the U.S. suffered in World War I and every war since — combined.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2024-03-18): Update: Regular updates now are accessible via a button on the top of DOD's Coronavirus Spotlight page and also posted on the DOD publications page. Source: Department of Defense Press Release
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-11-22): US has hit 1 million COVID deaths, but the number is likely higher [...] The United States hit the tragic milestone of 1 million COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, according to the White House, but researchers say the actual pandemic death toll -- including people who died from the pandemic's collateral damage -- is actually much higher. [...] Using excess mortality estimates, a recent analysis in The Lancet found that by the end of last year, the number of people who died in the United States because of the pandemic was almost 40% higher than the official US COVID death toll of 820,000.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-08-22): As of August 5, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a total of over 84 million cases, for which race/ethnicity was known for 65% or over 55 million, and a total of over 880,000 deaths, for which race/ethnicity was known for 85% or over 750,000. These estimates are based on a subset of data for which case-level demographic information has been reported to CDC by state health departments, so they differ from those reported elsewhere. For example, CDC reports a total of over 1 million deaths from COVID as of August 5, 2022. Data on cases also are likely significantly underreported as they do not reflect individuals who test positive on home tests and do not report findings to their public health agency. [...] - During the initial surge in summer 2020, AIAN, Hispanic, and Black people experienced higher rates of death than White people. As of July 2020, Hispanic people were five times more likely to die than White people, while AIAN and Black people were roughly four and three times as likely to die than White people, respectively. Asian people were at a similar risk of death as White people. - Deaths peaked in December 2020 and January 2021 across groups. AIAN and Hispanic people had the highest rates of death, and all groups of color had a higher death rate than White people as of January 2021. Following that surge, death rates fell across all racial and ethnic groups and disparities narrowed by early summer 2021.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-27): More than 1 million people in the United States have died from COVID-19. It is a somber number. Older adults have been hit especially hard–744,825 people over age 65 have died as of May 18. In at least 90% of the 1 million deaths, COVID-19 has been identified as the underlying cause of death. In the remaining 10%, COVID-19 is listed as a contributing cause of death. Pneumonia, an infection of the lung often caused by the COVID-19 virus, has been present in more than half (517,256) of COVID-19 deaths. Hypertension (182,893) and diabetes (150,078) have been the most common pre-existing conditions in COVID-19-related deaths. [...] - Of the 1 million COVID-19-related deaths in the U.S., 641,305 occurred after vaccines became available.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-04-29): The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from covid — a number that few thought possible when the pandemic began. In March 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that based on modeling of the pace of the coronavirus’s spread in the U.S. at that time, "between 100,000 and 200,000" people may die from covid. Reaching a million deaths seemed even more improbable when safe and effective vaccines came onto the market in December 2020. More than 60% of the 977,000 deaths have occurred since then.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-10): Officially, the U.S. will almost certainly reach an awful milestone in the next two weeks: its one millionth recorded Covid-19 death. [...] Beyond 1 million deaths These five patterns show how SARS-CoV-2 exacted a toll few could have imagined in the spring of 2020. The why of one million is a story of both scientific achievement which saved some lives and of systemic failures which cost far too many. Of heroism and sacrifice beset by distrust and partisanship. Of collective action weighed against individual risk and responsibility.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-16): By — Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/u-s-covid-deaths-hit-1-million-less-than-3-years-into-the-pandemic Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter U.S. COVID deaths hit 1 million less than 3 years into the pandemic Health May 16, 2022 1:41 PM EDT The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration. The confirmed number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 336 days. It is roughly equal to how many Americans died in the Civil War and World War II combined. It’s as if Boston and Pittsburgh were wiped out. "It is hard to imagine a million people plucked from this earth," said Jennifer Nuzzo, who leads a new pandemic center at the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island. "It’s still happening and we are letting it happen." READ MORE: Why 1 million dead from COVID is so hard for our brains to understand Some of those left behind say they cannot return to normal. They replay their loved ones’ voicemail messages.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2023-03-15): The recorded death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 800,000 in the U.S. One in every 100 people ages 65 years and older in the U.S. has died. [...] The number of recorded deaths due to COVID-19 in the U.S. reaches 1 million (1,000,000). [...] The U.S. has recorded a total of 84,145,569 COVID-19 infections and 1,003,571 (more than 1 million) deaths from COVID-19.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-17): In wave after deadly wave, COVID has claimed 1 million lives in the U.S. [...] Even though passing 1 million deaths has been widely expected for some time, the reality is still devastating. [...] To compound the tragedy, experts agree that 1 million underestimates how many people have actually died from COVID-19 — many deaths went unrecorded or were attributed to other causes.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-17): The United States has officially surpassed one million reported COVID-19 deaths, according to data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. [...] "The United States has reached the once unthinkable grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths," said William Moss, the CRC vaccinology lead and executive director of the Johns Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center. "Equally tragic, and also once unthinkable, are the recent WHO estimates that the pandemic resulted in nearly 15 million excess deaths globally in 2020 and 2021." [...] "While one million COVID-19 deaths is a mind-boggling number, we know that the U.S. actually reached this tragic milestone some time ago," said Crystal Watson, the CRC's public health lead and a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "Hundreds of thousands more people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. than are officially counted," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-16): More than one million people have died in the Covid-19 pandemic in the US, far and away the most deaths of any country. [...] Deaths directly attributable to Covid-19 are only one measure of the pandemic’s toll. Deaths from drug overdoses hit a record high in 2021, killing at least 100,000 Americans. Chronic conditions such as heart disease, hypertension and dementia have contributed to the number of "excess deaths" – a number which includes other ailments exacerbated by the pandemic, as well as those deaths caused directly by Covid-19. This number crossed the one million threshold in mid-February. [...] This article was amended on 16 May 2022 to correct that Johns Hopkins has not yet estimated one million deaths in the US as originally stated. Other sources are currently reporting the figure. Other figures were also updated to reflect the latest findings.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2021-04-24): September 28 — Global COVID-19 Deaths Surpass 1 Million The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 worldwide crosses the 1 million mark, according to The New York Times, surpassing the deaths caused by HIV, dysentery, malaria, influenza, cholera, and measles combined in 2020. [...] Data from Johns Hopkins University indicate that COVID-19 cases have topped 40 million worldwide as the United States and other countries see their highest rates of new cases in months. More than 1.1 million people have been killed by the virus worldwide so far, and nearly 220,000 of those deaths were in the United States, which remains the hardest-hit country in the world.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-12): Statement from President Joe Biden Marking One Million American Lives Lost to COVID-19 Today, we mark a tragic milestone: one million American lives lost to COVID-19. One million empty chairs around the dinner table. Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family, a community, and a nation forever changed because of this pandemic. Jill and I pray for each of them. [...] May God bless the one million American lives lost and their loved ones left behind.
Claim: U.S. deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million (Carla Johnson, 2022-05-17)
Evidence (2022-05-13): 1 million have died from COVID in the US. Experts wonder how this seems normal. [...] When the COVID-19 pandemic first struck the United States, the idea of 1 million deaths from the virus seemed largely unimaginable -- with most projections estimating a few hundred thousand fatalities. [...] "Today, we mark a tragic milestone: one million American lives lost to COVID-19. One million empty chairs around the dinner table. Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family, a community, and a nation forever changed because of this pandemic. Jill and I pray for each of them," he said. "As a nation, we must not grow numb to such sorrow. To heal, we must remember."
Claim: changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet (Ethan Huff, 2019-08-30)
Evidence (2019-08-30): Slowly changing orbital cycles did, indeed, control the timing of ice ages over the last several million years, but they cannot explain the much more rapid climate change seen in the last century. Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions have strengthened Earth's greenhouse effect, and this is clearly the cause of global warming.
Claim: changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet (Ethan Huff, 2019-08-30)
Evidence (2020-02-27): Obliquity – The angle Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted as it travels around the Sun is known as obliquity. Obliquity is why Earth has seasons. Over the last million years, it has varied between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees with respect to Earth’s orbital plane. The greater Earth’s axial tilt angle, the more extreme our seasons are, as each hemisphere receives more solar radiation during its summer, when the hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, and less during winter, when it is tilted away. Larger tilt angles favor periods of deglaciation (the melting and retreat of glaciers and ice sheets). These effects aren’t uniform globally -- higher latitudes receive a larger change in total solar radiation than areas closer to the equator. Earth’s axis is currently tilted 23.4 degrees, or about half way between its extremes, and this angle is very slowly decreasing in a cycle that spans about 41,000 years. It was last at its maximum tilt about 10,000 years ago and will reach its minimum tilt about 10,000 years from now. As obliquity decreases, it gradually helps make our seasons milder, resulting in increasingly warmer winters, and cooler summers that gradually, over time, allow snow and ice at high latitudes to build up into large ice sheets. As ice cover increases, it reflects more of the Sun’s energy back into space, promoting even further cooling.
Claim: changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet (Ethan Huff, 2019-08-30)
Evidence (2024-02-20): Earth’s orbit is eccentric, meaning it has changed repeatedly over time. Nudged by the gravitation of Jupiter, Mars, Venus and other planets, our world’s axial tilt and precession are always slowly shifting. And its orbit slips between circular and elliptical paths in complex cycles across millennia. One cycle in particular, with a duration of 405,000 years, helps geologists calibrate planetary dynamics using sediment records: like clockwork, when this cycle brought Earth closer to the sun, the climate warmed, leaving behind evidence laid down in rock. [...] Whatever was responsible for the surge of carbon dioxide that preceded the PETM, the event—and the rise in global temperatures that followed—are the best analogue in the rock record for current human-caused global warming. That does not mean orbital forcing is playing a role in anthropogenic climate change, Zeebe says. In fact, humans are releasing carbon into the atmosphere far faster than it occurred at the time of the PETM, meaning its impacts could be more severe. "Obviously, orbital configurations today are very different than they were 56 million years ago," he says. "And in terms of future climate change, there’s very little expectation that orbital forcing will reduce or mitigate [it]."
Claim: changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet (Ethan Huff, 2019-08-30)
Evidence (2024-02-18): A grazing encounter between the Solar System and a passing star could once have changed Earth's orbit enough to wreak havoc on the climate, new research has found. [...] "One reason this is important is because the geologic record shows that changes in the Earth's orbital eccentricity accompany fluctuations in the Earth's climate," Kaib says. [...] The Solar System is relatively stable, but orbits can be tweaked, and fairly easily. Earth's orbit, for instance, is regularly tugged about by the giant planets, which enact long-period changes on its orbital eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession.
Claim: changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet (Ethan Huff, 2019-08-30)
Evidence (2015-08-24): In the 1930s, Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch theorized that slow changes in the way the Earth moves through space about the Sun could have influenced our planet’s climate past. The Earth has experienced a string of ice ages in the past, interrupted by shorter, warmer, interglacial periods. How –and how much– have the Earths’ orbital parameters (including eccentricity, obliquity, and precession) influenced global climate in the past? [...] Seasons and the Earth’s tilt [...] Earth’s tilt is not always precisely the same. Every 41,000 years the tilt fluctuates between 22.1 degrees and 24.5 degrees from vertical. The tilt of the earth’s axis is described by obliquity. Earth’s current angle is about 23.45 degrees, that is, we’re tilted 23.45 degrees away from a hypothetical vertical line, and we’re very slowly becoming less oblique, shrinking the angle.
Claim: changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet (Ethan Huff, 2019-08-30)
Evidence (2021-11-01): Hays, J. D., Imbrie, J. & Shackleton, N. J. J. Variations in the Earth’ s orbit: pacemaker of the ice ages. Science194, 1121–1132 (1976). [...] Sun, Y. et al. Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene. Nat. Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00794-1 (2021). [...] Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene
Claim: changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet (Ethan Huff, 2019-08-30)
Evidence (2018-05-07): Earth's orbital changes have influenced climate, life forms for at least 215 million years [...] Scientists have for decades posited that Earth's orbit around the sun goes from nearly circular to about 5 percent elliptical, and back again every 405,000 years. The shift is believed to result from a complex interplay with the gravitational influences of Venus and Jupiter, along with other bodies in the Solar System as they all whirl around the Sun like a set of gyrating hula-hoops, sometimes closer to one another, sometimes further. Astrophysicists believe the mathematical calculation of the cycle is reliable back to around 50 million years, but after that, the problem gets too complex, because too many shifting motions are at play. [...] The planetary motions that spur climate swings are known as Milankovitch cycles, named for the Serbian mathematician who worked them out in the 1920s. Boiled down to simplest terms, they consist of a 100,000-year cycle in the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, similar to the big 405,000-year swing; a 41,000-year cycle in the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its orbit around the Sun; and a 21,000-year cycle caused by a wobble of the planet's axis. Together, these shifts change the proportions of solar energy reaching the Northern Hemisphere, where most of the planet's land is located, during different parts of the year. This in turn influences climate.