STUDY: Death Rate In 2020 Highest Ever Recorded

Politico reports:

The U.S. death rate increased by 15 percent last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, making it the deadliest year in recorded U.S. history, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention will announce, according to two senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the matter.

The agency will summarize its findings in an upcoming issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Its analysis will detail the rates at which U.S. residents of various races and ethnicities died as a result of the virus as well as the total number of deaths in each demographic group, those sources said.

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#COVID19 killed nearly 400,000 people in the U.S. in 2020, making it the third-leading cause of death.

Virus drove record U.S. death rate in 2020, CDC finds https://t.co/x7Q5ASxHFa via @politico

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