Those were numbers for world rather than just the US. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-12-09/heart-disease-is-worlds-no-1-killer https://w

Those were numbers for world rather than just the US. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-12-09/heart-disease-is-worlds-no-1-killer https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-12-09/... If you consider US only then it's not quite as dramatic but heart disease is still the #1 killer, especially since this happens every year and there's no vaccine for heart disease. 647,000 US deaths due to heart disease in 2019 vs 575,615 deaths due to Covid in 2020/2021. https://www.singlecare.com/blog/news/heart-disease-statistics/ https://www.singlecare.com/blog/news/heart-disease-statistic... As others have pointed out however, heart disease is a major factor in Covid deaths, for example, a history of heart failure ramps the Covid case-fatality rate from something like 2% for the general population up to 49%, so it's very difficult to fully separate out heart disease vs. covid for those 575k US deaths. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7490208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7490208/ If we are serious about following the science, it's pretty clear where we should focus our effort.