The CDC report examined death rates in the United States for 2021. For the second year, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer.
The report found between 2020 and 2021, disparities in age-adjusted death rate ratios from COVID-19 decreased significantly by 14.0% to 40.2% for most racial and ethnic groups, including non-Hispanic White persons, who accounted for 59.6%–65.2% of all deaths; and increased 7.2% for non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander persons compared with non-Hispanic multiracial persons.
As of Friday, more than 990,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. throughout the entire pandemic, signaling the nation will soon mark 1 million COVID-19 deaths.
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