December 18, 2020Open Access

COVID-19 as the Leading Cause of Death in the United States

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This Viewpoint uses CDC data to compare the COVID-19 mortality rate in 2020 with prior leading causes of death (heart disease, cancer, lung disease, and injury) to put into context the cost of the infection in loss of life in the United States.

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Woolf et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a31e0802c19ca26c1239d36 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.24865

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