The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Covid dashboard shows just 1.7 percent of the 324 Covid deaths registered in the week ending August 19 had the coronavirus as the primary cause of death.
Just 1.7 percent of the 324 Covid deaths during the week ending Aug. 19 listed the virus as the primary cause of death Just 1.7 percent of the 324 Covid deaths during the week ending Aug. 19 listed the virus as the primary cause of death The primary or underlying cause of death is defined as the disease, situation or event that initiated the chain of events directly resulting in death.
86 IS potentially most infectious Covid variant yet 118 viewing now Complications of the primary cause of death are usually considered secondary causes when doctors register a death certificate.
The percentage of Covid deaths in the week ending Aug. 19 represents a slight increase from the previous week and continues a five-week upward trend, but is a drastic decline from the peak of the pandemic, when 30 percent of deaths listed Covid as the primary cause.
While the CDC has not reported what the primary cause of death was in cases where Covid was the secondary factor, separate data from the agency shows thus far in August, the largest cause of death in the US has been cancer, followed by diseases of the heart.
More than two dozen states have experienced just one to nine deaths due to Covid in the week ending on Aug. 19 Data also shows the death rate is slightly higher among women than men, and death rates are highest in people 75 years and older.
The new Covid data will be reassuring at a time when panic is rising across the US as highly transmissible new Covid variants circulate, leading to more infections and hospitalizations and causing the reimplementation of some Covid mandates.
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