BREAKING NEWS

Most of the recently dead were in the South and unvaccinated, and there were more younger victims than any other point in the pandemic.

Friday, October 1, 2021 6:39 PM EST

An overwhelming majority of Americans who have died in recent months were unvaccinated. The United States has had one of the highest recent death rates of any country with an ample supply of vaccines.

The coronavirus pandemic has become the deadliest in American history, overtaking the toll from the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919, which killed about 675,000 people.

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