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In the wake of the more contagious Delta variant, Chinese coronavirus deaths are finally on the decline, according to a report from Axios.

Iain Duncan Smith has called for the government to end the reports of daily deaths from coronavirus because they cause Britons unnecessary anxiety and create a “distorted view of life in the UK and death”.

The population of South Korea fell for the first time in the country’s history in 2020, according to census data released on Sunday.

The actual number of coronavirus cases in South Florida as of April 10 was 11 times higher than initially reported, a CDC study reveals.

The coronavirus infection fatality rate is lower than initially predicted, perhaps similar or even lower than the seasonal flu’s 0.1 percent for some segments of the population, a couple of doctors confirmed in testimony before a Senate panel on Thursday.

The novel coronavirus has infected roughly 4.1 percent of the population in California’s Los Angeles County, suggesting the region’s outbreak is far more widespread than previously thought.

The fatal and highly contagious novel coronavirus has spread faster but is less deadly than official data imply, the Economist magazine reported over the weekend, citing a new study.

Fewer people are dying from the highly contagious novel coronavirus than previously estimated, according to a study from Britain published Monday in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.

An American Cancer Society report announced another historic year in over two decades of steadily declining cancer mortality rates.

The opioid crisis is killing young, white suburban Americans more than any other demographic in the United States for the second consecutive year.

The homeless crisis in Los Angeles County has reached deadly proportions, according to a recently released report by California public health officials.

The rate of Americans dying from cancer hit a 25-year low, according to a study from the American Cancer Society published Tuesday.

The United States fertility rate is now at an all-time low in the country’s history, dropping by half of what the fertility rate was in the 1950s.

The number of white American deaths exceeds the number of white American births for the first time in United States history, a new analysis finds.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions created a new “senior position” at the Department of Justice Wednesday, director of opioid enforcement and prevention efforts, to help combat what is now far and away the deadliest drug epidemic in American history.

The average American’s life expectancy dropped between 2015 and 2016 as the epidemic of U.S. citizens overdosing on opioids hit a record high of more than 63,000 deaths in 2016.

A recent survey of millennials found that white millennials are far less likely to believe in some of the basic features of the American Dream.

Deaths by suicide have risen dramatically over the past 15 years in the United States, with a sharp uptick during the last ten years, and people are now more than twice as likely to die from suicide than from homicide, according to recent studies.

Health experts are now stunned by a rise in the nation’s overall death rates — the first in a decade, and really one of the few in a quarter-century that didn’t have a fairly clear explanation.