Healthcare Economist December 28, 2021
A paper by Ahmad and Anderson in JAMA last spring examined trends in the causes of death in the US. Below are the charts in terms of both the number of deaths and the share of total deaths. The data come from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) National Vital Statistics System (NVSS).
The key item to note of course is the advent of COVID-19. More than 1 in 10 deaths in the U.S. in 2020 (10.3%) was due to COVID-19. To put this into perspective, COVID-19 caused about twice as many deaths as stroke (the #5 cause of death) and about 6.5 times the amount of death of season...
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