Pandemic Persists: US Has Observed More COVID Deaths in 2021 Than 2020, CDC Data Shows

Last year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged 385,343 COVID-19-related deaths in the nation. While the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has brought some sense of normalcy back to parts of the country, experts believe the premature rolling back of mitigation measures may have fatally impacted the unvaccinated and immunocompromised.