Alcohol deaths spiked during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the age-adjusted rate of alcohol-induced deaths increasing 26% from 2019 to 2020, the CDC reported Friday.
died from alcohol-related reasons in 2020, rising from around 39,000 in the previous year. Alcohol caused 13.1 deaths for every 100,000 people in 2020, up from 10.4 deaths for every 100,000 people in 2019, the CDC said, citing data from theAlcohol deaths have gone up about 7% a year from 2000 to 2018, the CDC said, but the isolation and fear caused by the pandemic apparently caused people to drink more.
The death rate was highest for men in the 55-to-64 age group, with about 60 deaths for every 100,000 people, the CDC said. For women, the highest death rate also occurred in the 55-to-64 age group, with about 21 deaths per 100,000 people.
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