Widening chasm in 'excess deaths' between Europe and the US

The United States has significantly higher death rates than five similarly high-income European countries, with the exception of the oldest age group, according to new research from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Patrick Heuveline, a sociologist at UCLA, conducted a study during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic and found that the gap between the United States and five other countries (England and Wales,....