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The article is talking about just daily deaths from COVID-19, not the overall daily death rate or the monthly COVID-19 death rate. Even on a good day, more peo
by CivBase 6y ago
The article is talking about just daily deaths from COVID-19, not the overall daily death rate or the monthly COVID-19 death rate. Even on a good day, more people die in the United States than died of the 9/11 attacks (~3k) - just usually not of any single cause.
In context... Approximately 655k Americans die of heart disease each year[0], which comes out to about 1.8k per day. Approximately 600k Americans die of cancer each year[0], which comes out to about 1.6k per day.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm