CDC Estimates More Than 1 Million Excess Deaths in US Since COVID-19 Pandemic

Medical workers walk outside a special coronavirus area at Maimonides Medical Center in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York on May 26, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that there have been more than 1 million excess deaths in the United States linked to the COVID-19 pandemic since February 2020.

According to CDC data, which are updated on a weekly basis, the number of excess deaths in the country was 1,045,389 as of Feb. 17.