CDC Data Shows That COVID Was Among the Leading Causes of Death in the US in 2021

CDC Data Shows That COVID Was Among the Leading Causes of Death in the US in 2021
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have done a pretty good job collecting data about the COVID pandemic, and it’s once again bringing some important news. It seems that for the preceding year 2021, the coronavirus has been the third leading cause of death in the USA, as the CDC claims via its website.

What’s perhaps even more worrying is that COVID has been the third leading cause of death in the USA for the second year in a row. Only heart disease and cancer killed more Americans than the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

COVID killed 460,000 people in the USA in 2021

About 460,000 people living in the US lost the battle with COVID in the preceding year and died, according to data brought by the CDC. The COVID death toll was even a bit higher in 2021 in the USA compared to the first year of the pandemic. 

The CDC wrote via its website:

The overall age-adjusted death rate increased by 0.7% in 2021 from 2020. Overall death rates were highest among non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaskan Native and non-Hispanic Black or African American populations. For a second year, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.

As for 2022, it’s enough to take a look at worldometers.info to realize that the situation didn’t look too good, although the world might be approaching the end of the pandemic. The page shows that more than 1 million people have died of COVID in the USA since the beginning of the pandemic. However, there’s also some good news: a total of over 80.4 million individuals from the USA recovered after getting infected with the coronavirus.

The world has achieved tremendous progress in fighting COVID compared to how the situation was in the early days of the pandemic.


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Even since he was a child, Cristian was staring curiously at the stars, wondering about the Universe and our place in it. Today he's seeing his dream come true by writing about the latest news in astronomy. Cristian is also glad to be covering health and other science topics, having significant experience in writing about such fields.

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