In addition to more than 75,000 deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19, the growing epidemic of “deaths of despair” in the U.S. is also increasing due to the pandemic — and another 75,000 more people will likely die from drug or alcohol misuse and suicide, according to new research released by Well Being Trust and the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care.
As of Friday, 8.1 million people had been tested in the U.S. for SARS-CoV-2. There were 1,256,972 confirmed cases in the U.S., and 75,670 deaths, of which nearly 26,144 were in New York state, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. Worldwide, there were 3,866,642 confirmed cases and 270,118 deaths, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University.
