STAT August 8, 2024
Since its emergence in 2020, Covid has jumbled the list of the 10 leading causes of deaths in the United States. It roared into third place in 2020 but has now fallen to 10th place, the National Center for Health Statistics reported Thursday.
Heart disease and cancer remained the first and second leading causes of death, followed by unintentional injuries as No. 3. Overall, deaths in 2023 were 6.1% lower than 2022.
“We’re going in the wrong direction for heart disease. We’re going a tad in the right direction for cancer,” said Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. A cardiologist and geneticist, he was not involved in the analysis. “A lot of things that...
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