CDC Report: COVID-19 — Drops to 10th Leading Cause of Death

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued its annual report on the top causes of death in the U.S.

COVID-19 killed a lot fewer of us in 2023 than it did in 2022 and is now the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. It was fourth in 2022.

How big is the drop? The CDC says the percentage of people dying from COVID in 2023 is down 69% from 2022. In 2020 COVID scrambled the cause of death in this country — and the world — significantly. However, last year the disease is listed as the underlying, or contributing, cause of death in just 76,446 deaths.

That’s just 1.6% of all deaths and it is a huge drop from the 5.7% in 2022.

The rate dropped in all age groups and all racial and ethnic groups. However, those 85 and over still account for a very large share of COVID deaths.

The leading causes of death in 2023 were heart disease, cancer and what the CDC calls, unintentional injury. Most of those are drug overdoses.

Source link: The Hill — https://bit.ly/4cFD0Pn