{"id":177618,"date":"2023-12-07T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/1000-americans-are-dying-every-week-from-covid-cdc-says"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:24:09","slug":"1000-americans-are-dying-every-week-from-covid-cdc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/1000-americans-are-dying-every-week-from-covid-cdc-says","title":{"rendered":"1,000 Americans are dying every week from Covid, CDC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1000-americans-are-dying-every-week-from-covid-cdc-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly four years into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/pandemic\" rel=\"nofollow\"> pandemic<\/a>, hundreds of Americans are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/republicans-died-double-democrats-covid-b2227425.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> dying every day<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/covid\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Covid<\/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cdc\" rel=\"nofollow\"> CDC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The virus is responsible for around 1,000 deaths and 15,000 hospitalisations each week, CDC Director Mandy Cohen said during a media briefing on 2 December.<\/p>\n<p>Death rates briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> dipped below 500 per week in July<\/a>, the lowest rates since the pandemic began, before steadily increasing to as high as 1,400 in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly four years into the pandemic, hundreds of Americans are still dying every day from Covid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC). The virus is responsible for around 1,000 deaths and 15,000 hospitalisations each week, CDC Director Mandy Cohen said during a media briefing on 2 December. Death rates briefly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}