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struggle4progress

(118,280 posts)
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 12:50 AM Jul 2021

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/


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COVID-19 still a leading cause of death in US in June 2021 (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2021 OP
Well of course it is because we're still in the midst of a pandemic elias7 Jul 2021 #1

elias7

(3,997 posts)
1. Well of course it is because we're still in the midst of a pandemic
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 01:22 AM
Jul 2021

It will persist as long as these idiots don’t get vaccinated

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