coronavirus pandemic.Final mortality data for this year will not be available for months. But preliminary numbers suggest that the United States is on track to see more than 3.2 million deaths this year, or at least 400,000 more than in 2019.U.S.
deaths increase most years, so some annual rise in fatalities is expected. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%, and could go higher once all the deaths from this month are counted.
U.S. sees record coronavirus hospitalizations, cases and deaths as ICUs fill up That would mark the largest single-year percentage leap since 1918, when tens of thousands of U.S.