COVID-19 falls to No. 10 cause of death in US

Medical Xpress August 8, 2024
The Associated Press

U.S. death rates fell last year for all age groups compared with 2022, federal health officials said Thursday.

Here’s what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed:

—COVID-19 fell to the 10th leading cause of death. Early in the pandemic, the coronavirus was the nation’s third leading cause of death. It dropped to fourth in 2022.

—The leading causes of death were heart disease, cancer and a category of injuries that includes gun deaths and drug overdoses.

—There were nearly 3.1 million deaths last year in the U.S., down from 3.3 million in 2022. For many years before the pandemic, deaths usually rose year-to-year, in part because the nation’s population grows....

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