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After vaccines became widely available in 2021, "the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters," Yale researchers say. The divide was especially wide in Florida and Ohio.

The research points to a range of causes of death that can strike in the year after a patient is hospitalized for the virus.

The U.S. also surpassed 50 million COVID-19 cases, the most in the world. Two experts who raised early warnings discuss how the losses continue to deepen, despite the arrival of vaccines a year ago.

Memorial tattoos have grown more popular in recent years. Since parlors reopened after the lockdown, inkers have found that many people are eager to memorialize relatives and friends lost to COVID.

Johns Hopkins' dashboard reports 771,045 deaths since the pandemic began. According to the CDC, 385,343 deaths occurred last year, which would mean 385,702 have happened so far this year.

The U.S. leads the world in the number of confirmed deaths from the virus — 745,800 people — followed by Brazil and India, according to Johns Hopkins University's coronavirus tracker.

Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID complications. In an announcement on social media, his family said Powell had been fully vaccinated.

The state has seen its cases and hospitalizations decline, but an analysis from the New York Times finds Florida's deaths per 100,000 are third highest in the country over the past seven days.

The art installation was created by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, the social practice artist who first created an installation of white flags outside Washington's RFK Stadium in October 2020.

An AARP report shows that over four weeks that ended Aug. 22, the state's death rate for nursing home residents of 0.36 per 100 residents matched Alaska's.