COVID-19 still a leading cause of death in US in June 2021
By Jared Ortaliza, Kendal Orgera, Krutika Amin, and Cynthia Cox
KFF
July 1, 2021
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death across all of 2020, but in December 2020 and early 2021, the illness surged and briefly became the number one leading cause of death in the US, far surpassing even cancer and heart disease ...
With the rapid uptake in vaccinations in recent months, COVID-19 deaths have fallen sharply. As of June 30, 2021, about 66% of adults in the U.S. have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose ...
COVID-19 is currently the 7th leading cause of death in the US in June 2021 ...
In June 2021, an average of more than 300 people per day continue to die of COVID-19 in the US, even as vaccines are readily available to most of the population. Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have been among unvaccinated people ...
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19-continues-to-be-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s-in-june-2021/