From March of 2020 to May of 2023, 1.38 million more people died in the United States than would have been expected — 1.38 million lives that, had circumstances been different, would not have been lost. [MedScape]

This is the legacy of the COVID pandemic. And I want to be clear that not all of these deaths are directly due to COVID; we’ll explore the deaths attributable to the virus in a minute. But the pandemic itself, the changes it wrought on society — the delayed cancer screenings, the missed outpatient appointments — all of these acted to change our fundamental understanding of the risk of living in this country.

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