COVID Third Leading Cause Of Death In US After Heart Disease And Cancer

CDC released an MMWR report that provides provisional data on mortality in the United States last year. According to it, with approximately 378,000 fatalities, COVID ranked as the third leading cause of underlying death after heart disease and cancer. In 2020, about 3.3 million people died in the country, marking a 16 percent increase in deaths from 2019, the report shows. On Wednesday, 68162 n