EXCLUSIVE: Nationwide Surge In Deaths Among People Aged 18-49: A State by State Overview

Highest state sees 65 percent increase in prime-age mortality, only 36 percent attributed to COVID-19

First responders load a patient into an ambulance from a nursing home where multiple people have contracted COID-19 on April 17, 2020 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Deaths among people aged 18 to 49 increased more than 40 percent in the 12 months ending October 2021 compared to the same period in 2018–2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis of death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by The Epoch Times.

The agency doesn’t yet have full 2021 numbers, as death certificate data trickles in with a lag of one to eight weeks or more.