Coronavirus: Disease likely to become a leading cause of death in the US this year, according to CDC experts

Coronavirus is likely to become a leading cause of death in the US in 2020, statisticians from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) predicted.

While experts can’t officially rank the top causes of death until they have a full year of data at the end of the calendar year, CDC statisticians told CNN they expect Covid-19 to finish in the top 10 causes of death. in the Nation.

“We know that based on the number of Covid-19 deaths so far in 2020, it will end up as one of the top 10 causes of death, but we will not know exactly how high it will be until next year,” mortality statistics from the CDC broadcaster on Thursday.

“Heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in the United States, account for more than half of all deaths in the United States each year and that is not expected to change.”

In 2018, the last year for which final data is available, the top three causes of death across the country were heart disease, cancer, and unintentional injury.

According to the same statistics, 655,381 people died of heart disease in 2018, 599,274 of cancer and 167,127 of unintentional injuries.

Other major causes of death on the list include strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, the flu and pneumonia, and suicide.

The final data is based on death certificates for the calendar year.

The national death toll from the new coronavirus disease topped 100,000 in May, and analysts at the University of Washington Institute for Health Assessment and Measurement (IHME) predicted in early July that the virus could take 200,000 American lives before the presidential elections in November.

Analysts warned that an additional 80,000 Americans could die in the next four months thanks to increased transmission of the virus.

The country has seen a severe increase in cases of the disease in recent weeks with infections registered in the United States that has more than doubled in recent months, bringing the confirmed number of infections across the country to more four million.

About 60,000 people were hospitalized for Covid-19 in the United States as of Wednesday, approaching the numbers for the peak of the April pandemic.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, there have been more than four million confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the US, and more than 140,000 people have died from the new respiratory disease as of Friday.