MedPage Today November 4, 2024
— A look back at newsworthy stories of 2024
This year’s headlines on COVID-19 featured new research on COVID-related mortality, post-acute sequelae of infection, vaccine safety, and potential therapeutics.
COVID Deaths Are Down, but…
After being in the top five leading causes of death in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 dropped to tenth in 2023, according to provisional CDC data.
Notably, the mortality rate for COVID-19 deaths was 68.9% lower in 2023 than in 2022, CDC researchers reported. Although that change was dramatic, COVID still remains a leading cause of death, the study authors pointed out.
In a related JAMA Viewpoint, the authors noted that COVID-19 peaked in 2020 and 2021 as the third highest cause...
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