The agency has only early data on the biggest causes of deaths for last year, and researchers are still searching for the numbers, but preliminary data suggests that Covid-19 could have caused enough deaths by 2020 to be third, CDC statisticians told CNN said in an email. .
“We only have preliminary data until December 26. We will have to get more data soon,” CDC statisticians said. “Up to that point, we estimate that there were between 316,252 and 431,792 excess deaths by 2020. Our preliminary death certificate data up to that point show more than 301,000 deaths involving COVID-19, which is likely to make it the third place among the biggest causes of death. “
They added that “there is enough distance” between the number of deaths caused by cancer, the second biggest cause in 2019, and those caused by accidents or unintentional injuries, the fourth biggest cause in 2019, “to put it mildly “that Covid- 19 was the third biggest cause for 2020.
In 2019, before the coronavirus broke out, the ten biggest causes of death in the United States were:
- Heart Disease (659,041)
- Cancer (599,601)
- Unintentional injuries (173 040)
- Chronic diseases of the lower respiratory tract (156,979)
- Stroke (150,005)
- Alzheimer’s disease (121,499)
- Diabetes (87,647)
- Nephritis (51,565)
- Influenza and pneumonia (49 783)
- Suicide (47 511)
More than 353,000 people in the United States died of Covid-19 on Tuesday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University census.