CDC: COVID-19 third leading cause of death in 2020
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020 in according to provisional mortality data.
According to an early release study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the age-adjusted death rate increased for the first time since 2017 by 15.9 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. COVID-19 was the underlying or contributing cause of 377,883 of the about 3.36 million deaths in the country overall.
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