COVID drops to 10th leading provisional cause of death in U.S. for 2023

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August 9, 2024

 

Provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on the top causes of deaths in the United States in 2023 shows COVID-19 dropped to the tenth leading cause of death. In 2022, it was the fourth leading cause of death, meaning deaths from COVID dropped by 68.9% in 1 year.

 

There were 76,446 deaths from COVID-19 in 2023, and 245,614 in 2022. In 2023, the leading causes of death in the United States were heart disease (680,909 deaths), cancer (613,331), and unintentional injury (222,518).

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For COVID, the death rate decreased from 2022 to 2023 for all age groups, but the age-adjusted COVID-19–associated death rate per 100,000 among males (22.1) was higher than that among females (15.4). COVID-19–associated death rates decreased from 2022 to 2023 for all racial and ethnic groups, the authors said. 

 

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-drops-10th-leading-cause-death-us

 

 

"The National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) collects and reports annual mortality statistics using U.S. death certificate data. Because of the time needed to investigate certain causes of death and to process and review death data, final annual mortality data for a given year are typically released 11 months after the end of the calendar year. Provisional data, which are based on preliminary death certificate data sent to NCHS, provide an early estimate of deaths before the release of final data.

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NCHS coded the causes of death according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, which details disease classification and the designation of underlying cause of death^§ (2). COVID-19 death counts and rates include deaths for which COVID-19 is listed on the death certificate as an underlying or contributing cause of death.^¶ Leading causes of death were ranked by counts based on underlying cause of death (3)." [emphasis added]

 

^¶ The underlying cause of death is the disease or injury that initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death. A contributing cause of death is a disease or injury also listed on the death certificate, that is not classified as the underlying cause of death.

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COVID-19 was the underlying cause for 1.6% of all deaths in 2023, decreasing from 5.7% (186,552 deaths) in 2022."

 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7331a1.htm#F2_down

 

 

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COVID was 10th leading cause of death in 2023, down from 4th in 2022: CDC

August 9, 2024

 

COVID-19 has significantly fallen as a leading cause of death in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began, according to new provisional data published Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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The report did not go into reasons for why deaths have fallen, but Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor, said likely reasons include the prevention of COVID fatalities through vaccines, treatments for early onset illness and a better overall understanding of the virus.

 

"Being on the other side of the pandemic played a big part in seeing this overall mortality rate go down," he said. 'This is, in large part, related to the public health effort, especially vaccines that, of course, saved so many lives."

 

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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-now-10th-leading-cause-death-2023-4th/story?id=112673092