Home Page Health ·PandemicThe pandemic hit hard, to say the least.APU GOMES/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.People in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and that difference is only growing. That’s the key finding of a new study that I published in the journal PLOS One.In 2021, more than 892,000 of the 3,456,000 deaths the U.S. experienced, or about 1 in 4, were “excess deaths.” In 2019, that number was 483,000 deaths, or nearly 1 in 6. That represents an 84.9% increase in excess deaths in the...…Home Page Health ·PandemicThe pandemic hit hard, to say the least.APU GOMES/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.People in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and that difference is only growing. That’s the key finding of a new study that I published in the journal PLOS One.In 2021, more than 892,000 of the 3,456,000 deaths the U.S. experienced, or about 1 in 4, were “excess deaths.” In 2019, that number was 483,000 deaths, or nearly 1 in 6. That represents an 84.9% increase in excess deaths in the...WW…