On Monday evening, the global death rate hovered around 4.4%, according to data from Johns Hopkins — that's higher than the World Health Organization's March 3 estimate of about 3.4%.

By 2023 the young adult excess death rate had fallen but was still 70% higher than baseline. A total of 172,785 people between the ages of 25 and 44 died that year. Statistically speaking, more ...

The rate of excess deaths — fatalities beyond the expected number — among people between ages 25 and 44 has nearly tripled since 1999. And while the COVID-19 pandemic and well-documented drug ...

Americans are dying in young adulthood at alarming, and rising, rates ... fewer deaths to 2023’s excess than external ones but can’t be overlooked, Andrew Stokes, study co-author and Boston University ...