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Heart disease and cancer continued to be the top causes of death, even as COVID emerged as a leading killer in 2020 and 2021. CDC reveals leading causes of death for the past 5 years. Here are 5 ...
The leading causes of death were fairly consistent for years until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Once the pandemic started, the virus was the third leading cause of death in 2020 and the years ...
The causes listed are relatively immediate medical causes, but the ultimate cause of death might be described differently. For example, tobacco smoking often causes lung disease or cancer, and alcohol use disorder can cause liver failure or a motor vehicle accident.
From March 1, 2020, through the end of 2020, there were 522,368 excess deaths in the United States, or 22.9% more deaths than would have been expected in that time period. [ 5 ] In February 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, a shortage of tests made it impossible to confirm all possible COVID-19 cases [ 6 ] and resulting deaths, so the ...
Life expectancy in the U.S. fell and death rates rose in 2020, driven by Covid and drug overdoses, as well as chronic disease. U.S. death rate soared 17 percent in 2020, final CDC mortality report ...
COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [359] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [360] From 2019 to 2020, US life expectancy dropped by 3 years for Hispanic Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [361]
Assistant graphics editor Simone Landon lead a team of researchers in searching obituaries that listed COVID-19 as the cause of death and extracting names and key personal details. [1] The list was assembled by researcher Alain Delaquérière through various online sources for obituaries and death notices.
The U.S. death toll topped 3.3 million last year according to a new government report. Take a look at this: COVID caused about 375,000 deaths last year and was the third leading cause of death ...