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Topic: mortality

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press at General Mitchell International Airport November 2, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's return comes with health risks

Chauncey DeVega
A view from En-Neccar Hospital in Rafah, Gaza on December 27, 2023. (Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Gaza, Israel and the end of my life

David Theo Goldberg
Blue and Red Population concept (Getty Images/Constantine Johnny)

Mortality gap between red, blue counties

Eric Schank
A nurse places a blanket over a patient that had just been admitted to the emergency room at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

COVID death toll hugely undercounted

Nicole Karlis
Health officials carry a dead body of coronavirus (Covid-19) victim on a stretcher to container morgues by the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The U.S. has an "excess death" problem

Bob Hennelly
40th Birthday Cake (Getty Images)

I never planned on seeing 40

D. Watkins
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-554806p1.html'>effe45</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Preventing deaths of new and expecting

Nina Martin, Robin Fields - ProPublica
Brittney Cooper

"I don't like to fight"

Blake Zeff
(<a href='url to photographer'>kurhan</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf
(auremar/Shutterstock)

Joanna Rothkopf
Atul Gawande (Macmillan/Tim Llewellyn)

Gawande on the end of life

Joanna Rothkopf
Lewis Lapham (AP/Sang Tan)

Lewis Lapham
Valerie Harper (Reuters/Sam Mircovich)

"Rhoda" talks life and death

Mary Elizabeth Williams

David Bowie can trace time

Nathan Reese
Caitlin Doughty, from "Ask a Mortician"

America's next top mortician

J. B. Staniforth
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