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Just like covid numbers are never put in perspective with deaths from other causes.
by collyw 6y ago
Just like covid numbers are never put in perspective with deaths from other causes.
- fredophile 6y agoCovid has been in the US for about a year and killed over 500 000 people so we can approximate that to be about 500 000 in a year. The top 3 leading causes of death in the US in 2017 were heart disease (635 260), cancer (598 038), and accidents (161 374) [0]. That puts covid solidly in third place even if you assume the covid numbers are over counted. Heart disease and cancer accounted for over 20% of deaths each so that would make covid somewhere a little under 20% of deaths. Based on that, nearly 1 in 5 people who died in the last year in the US died of covid. [0] https://www.healthline.com/health/leading-causes-of-death https://www.healthline.com/health/leading-causes-of-death