{"id":33470,"date":"2021-03-31T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33470"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:09:23","slug":"an-eye-popping-stat-us-death-rate-jumps-by-nearly-16-percent-amid-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33470","title":{"rendered":"An eye-popping stat: US death rate jumps by nearly 16 percent amid COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today<\/strong>: COVID-19 killed a staggering number of people, fueling a major spike in the US death rate. New documents show how a former Trump official pursued scattershot deals for medical supplies, and Pfizer reported good news about its COVID vaccine in adolescents.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start with sobering numbers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>An eye-popping stat: US death rate jumps by nearly 16 percent amid COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The death rate in the United States jumped by 15.9 percent between 2019 and 2020, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus was responsible for about 1 in 10 deaths in the country in 2020, and was the third-leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The breakdown:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heart disease: 690,000 deaths<\/p>\n<p>Cancer: 598,000 deaths<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19: 345,000 deaths<\/p>\n<p>Overall, COVID-19 was the underlying cause of about 345,000 deaths last year and was a contributing cause for another roughly 32,000, which together is 11.3 percent of all deaths in the country last year, the CDC said.<\/p>\n<p>While new deaths from the virus have fallen significantly from their peaks in January, there are still about 1,000 people dying from COVID-19 every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today: COVID-19 killed a staggering number&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33471,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470\/revisions\/33471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}