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Russia virus toll, deaths, hit new highs
Russia on Saturday registered record numbers for daily infections and deaths from the coronavirus, two days after having passed two
U.S. COVID deaths may be underestimated by 36%
More than 200,000 people in the United States have now died from COVID-19. But the death toll of the U.S.
US traffic deaths fell 2% in 2019; 3rd straight yearly drop
Traffic deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2019, the government’s road safety agency reported. The
Virus curfew to be lifted in Australia as global deaths near a million
An overnight curfew in Australia’s second-largest city will be lifted this week, officials said Sunday, even as the global coronavirus
Premature deaths from alcoholic liver disease rising as gap between men and women narrows
A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, identifies emerging patterns in the rate of
Opioids continue to be the leading cause of overdose deaths in Australia. What else can we do?
In 2018, more than 2,000 people died from drug overdoses in Australia—about five each day. That’s according to the Penington
COVID-19 cases, deaths may follow weekly pattern
MIT, Boston University, and Harvard Medical School researchers have identified weekly oscillations in the numbers of new daily COVID-19 cases