US COVID-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass Last Year’s: Data

An Army veteran waits to see if he has a reaction after receiving a COVID-19 booster vaccine at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Hines, Ill., on Sept. 24, 2021. Scott Olson/Getty Images

The number of reported COVID-19 deaths in the United States in 2021 has surpassed the death total in 2020, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Johns Hopkins University.

As of this past weekend, the number of reported COVID-19 deaths reached 770,816 since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins. In 2020, 385,343 COVID-19 deaths were reported, CDC death-certificate data show.