It's official. Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020. The CDC's provisional count of deaths by cause in 2020 show Covid-19 behind only heart disease and cancer. Covid replaced suicide on the top-10 cause of death list, the CDC reports. Covid was the underlying or contributing cause of 377,833 deaths—11 percent of all deaths during the year.
With Covid boosting deaths, the total number of deaths in 2020 exceeded the 2019 number by more than 500,000—an 18 percent increase. The overall age-adjusted mortality rate increased 16 percent.
Total number of deaths
2020: 3,358,814
2019: 2,854,838
Change: +503,976
Age-adjusted mortality rate
2020: 828.7 deaths per 100,000 population
2019: 715.2 deaths per 100,000 population
Source: CDC, Provisional Mortality Data—United States, 2020
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