evidence: More than one million people have died in the Covid-19 pandemic in the US, far and away the most deaths of any country. [...] Deaths directly attributable to Covid-19 are only one measure of the pandemic’s toll. Deaths from drug overdoses hit a record high in 2021, killing at least 100,000 Americans. Chronic conditions such as heart disease, hypertension and dementia have contributed to the number of "excess deaths" – a number which includes other ailments exacerbated by the pandemic, as well as those deaths caused directly by Covid-19. This number crossed the one million threshold in mid-February. [...] This article was amended on 16 May 2022 to correct that Johns Hopkins has not yet estimated one million deaths in the US as originally stated. Other sources are currently reporting the figure. Other figures were also updated to reflect the latest findings.