How many Americans have died of COVID-19?

This week marks five years since March 13, 2020 , the day President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency over the novel coronavirus outbreak.

By that date, only 57 Americans had died of COVID-19 and 1,645 had been diagnosed with the virus.

John Sutter : What do we know now about how deadly the pandemic was? Today , we look at estimates of how many Americans have died of the illness.

COVID-19 has either been the underlying cause of or contributed to the deaths of some 1.3 million Americans since President Trump 's national emergency declaration.

The CDC 's current count of 1,225,281 American deaths from the infection fatality rate is somewhat conservative.

A June 2024 study in Infectious Disease Modelling calculated the median pre-vaccination rate for the U.S. at 0.214 percent .