COVID-19 Deaths Plunge by Over 70 Percent in America: CDC

New data reveal that COVID-19 has become a less deadly, endemic virus, with mortality dropping by over 70 percent as it fell from the fourth to the 10th leading cause of death in the United States last year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, released on Aug. 8, are based on death certificate information collected by the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Vital Statistics System. The agency’s data show that the number of deaths in 2022 in which COVID-19 was listed as the underlying, or primary, cause of death amounted to 186,552. This made COVID-19 the fourth leading cause of death that year....