United States: Covid-19 is the third leading cause of death in 2020

Since the start of the pandemic, the United States has held a sad record.

With nearly 550,000 deaths from Covid-19, the world's leading power is the most bereaved country in the world.

So much so that it became the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020, behind cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to provisional figures communicated by the American health authorities.

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According to them, the coronavirus caused an increase of more than 15% in the general death rate compared to 2019. This rate had not yet increased since 2017. In total, more than 3.3 million people are died between January and December 2020 in the United States, detail the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), which analyzed death certificates in the country.

Relative to population and adjusted for age, the number of people who died per 100,000 population was around 828, up from 715 in 2019, an increase of 15.9%.

Of these deaths, more than 377,800 were definitively or likely due to Covid-19 (around 345,300 excluding deaths for which the coronavirus was one of the diseases contributing to death, among other factors).

A higher death rate among black people and Native Americans

By comparison, heart disease killed about 690,000 people in the same year in the United States, and cancer 598,000. The death rate from Covid-19 was higher among black people and Native Americans.

Unsurprisingly, it increases dramatically with age, with only 0.2 deaths per 100,000 children between 1 and 14 years old, compared with 1,797 deaths for the same proportion of people over 85 years old.

Men were also more affected than women.

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The weeks during which the greatest number of deaths from Covid-19 were recorded took place in April and December, that is to say at the times of the peaks of spring and winter, detail the health authorities in their bulletin which refers.