Coronavirus Becomes Leading Cause of Death in U.S. [View all]
Source: Newsweek
COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, is now the deadliest disease in the United States, killing more people per day than cancer or heart disease.
According to a graph published Tuesday by Dr. Maria Danilychev, who practices in San Diego, COVID-19 is the cause of 1,970 deaths in the U.S. per day. Just last week, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death, averaging around 748 deaths per day, but as the virus has continued to spread, the increase in daily deaths have followed. In comparison to COVID-19 fatalities, 1,774 deaths are attributed to heart disease and 1,641 to cancer.
The graph uses data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the daily average causes of death and compares them to COVID-19 statistics from Worldometers.info.
The statistics presented in the graph comes as the novel coronavirus has continued to spread throughout the U.S. and the world. According to a tracker provided by Johns Hopkins University, there are over 432,000 cases in the U.S. and over 1.4 million cases globally.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/coronavirus-becomes-leading-cause-of-death-in-us/ar-BB12o7aQ?li=BBnb7Kz
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