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COVID was the leading cause of death in Americans aged 45-54 in 2021
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 5 July, 2022 - 22:38
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in Americans between March 2020 and October 2021, accounting for one in every eight deaths.
In that time frame, COVID-19 ranked in the top five causes of death for every age group of people older than 15 years. Between January and October 2021, the pandemic disease was the leading cause of death among people 45 to 54 years old.
That's all according to a study of national death certificate data , published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.