Sepsis is a public health crisis. Help educate the people in your life on the devastating impact of sepsis using the facts below.

• More than 1.7 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with sepsis each year.
• In the United States, sepsis takes a life every two minutes.
• 350,000 adults die from sepsis every year in the U.S. This is more than opioid overdoses, breast cancer, and prostate cancer combined.
• Sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals.
• More than 75,000 children develop severe sepsis each year in the U.S. and 6,800 of these children die, more than from pediatric cancers.
• Sepsis is the number one cause of hospital readmissions, costing more than $3.5 billion each year.
• Sepsis is the #1 cost of hospitalization in the U.S. Costs for acute sepsis hospitalization and skilled nursing are estimated to be $62 billion annually.
• Black individuals bear nearly twice the burden of sepsis deaths, relative to the issue of the Black population, as compared to white individuals.
• Black women are 3.3 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women in the U.S. Native American and Native Alaskan women are 2.5 times more likely to die than white women.