Covid-19 now 3rd leading cause of death in the US (CNN, healthcare)
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It may be the 3rd leading cause of death at the moment, but it may well be the primary cause of Trump's defeat in November. "Who knew healthcare was so hard or that sooo... many people would die".
The novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, has become the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S., following heart disease and cancer.
What percentage of deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been people who were already very weak or dying from heart disease or cancer?
Google search. I was surprised to learn several years ago that flu and complications from flu (pneumonia like with Covid-19) is a regular leading cause of death in the USA. But CNN did come out with some articles on the flu, claiming that the death toll a couple years ago was particularly high, at over 80,000. If that was true, that may put it in 7th place, ahead of kidney and renal diseases.
I'm much more worried about cancer, and would rather see a war declared on that. It kills over 1/2 million Americans every year, and I would bet it kills, in order of magnitude, far more young people than Covid-19 will.
The CDC reports it. But the CDC isn't the media last time I checked
Note, I don't doubt that this isn't being reported by the media either, but you definitely don't need the media to find out these numbers.
media
the main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet) regarded collectively.
"their demands were publicized by the media"
plural form of medium.
I guess it's just the media you don't agree with.
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