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COVID was the fourth leading cause of mortality in 2022, linked to 245,614 deaths. It plummeted to the 10th cause in 2023, with 76,446 deaths. Death rates were highest among the elderly, males and ...
The CDC publishes official numbers of COVID-19 cases in the United States. The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The ...
Its emergence then “really shook up the leading causes of death,” Farida Ahmad, study co-author and lead mortality surveillance researcher at the CDC’s Division of Vital Statistics, tells ...
A steep drop in Covid-19 deaths helped the overall death rate in the United States fall 6% in 2023, according to provisional data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and ...
It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [40] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by 3 years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [41] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose [42] and life expectancy fell. [43]
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [ 9] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [ 8] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. It is an underlying cause of many cancers, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and respiratory diseases. [42] Smoking usually refers to smoking of tobacco products. E-cigarettes also pose large risks to health. [43]
COVID-19 has significantly fallen as a leading cause of death in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began, according to new provisional data published Thursday from the Centers for ...