Death Toll in the U.S. 2020 Review
COVID-19 is a deadly virus that is transmitted from animals to people causing an unwanted sickness. Some of the most common symptoms in the patients are that they are cold, suffer severe headaches, breathing issues, fever, etc. The first case of this virus in humans surfaced in December 2019 in China. The virus was termed as a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 also known as COVID-19. New Jersey and the City of New York have witnessed relatively higher COVID 19 deaths. The death rate recorded in the U.S. in July was 8% higher than expected. On average, a minimum of 164,937 deaths have occurred for the first seven months of the year; with 13,195 due to Corona.
Keeping track of death tolls is a daunting task during any pandemic. The autopsy reports of a demised person are stated with the leading cause of death, along with three medical conditions that lead to a person’s death. The NCHS collates this data and draws interpretations using these numbers to study the leading causes of deaths in the United States. Currently, the U.S. top causes of death are from heart-diseases and cancer, while COVID 19 is the third-highest cause of death in 2020.
Let’s look at some of the statistics of death tolls in the U.S. and their major causes. As discussed above the number one cause of deaths in the US is heart disease, then cancer.
Every 36 seconds, one person dies of cardiovascular disease. That’s 655,000 Americans each year. The government spends most of its revenue on heart diseases costing around $219 billion per year, including healthcare services and medicines. As figures published by Cancer Statistics 2020 in the American Cancer Society’s journal named: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians; there are about 1,806,590 new cancer cases recorded each year. The number of deaths due to cancer is expected to reach 606,520 in 2020, roughly 4,950 new cases and deaths rising to 1,600 every day. While the deaths owing to COVID 19 has reached 217,476
