{"id":2858,"date":"2020-12-18T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2020-12-21T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:36:34","slug":"covid-19-as-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/18\/covid-19-as-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 as the Leading Cause of Death in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>By October 2020, COVID-19 had become the leading cause of death in the United States for people over age 35. In October 2020, COVID-19 had become the third leading cause of death for persons aged 45 through 84 years and the second leading cause of death for those aged 85 years or older. COVID-19 mortality rates now exceed deaths due to heart disease and cancer (1,700 and 1,600 deaths per day, respectively), and it is estimated that excess deaths may be 20% higher than publicly reported COVID-19 death counts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Woolf et al. (Dec 17, 2020). COVID-19 as the Leading Cause of Death in the United States. JAMA. <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2774465\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2774465<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By October 2020, COVID-19 had become the leading cause of death in the United States for people over age 35. In October 2020, COVID-19 had become the third leading cause of death for persons aged 45 through 84 years and the second leading cause of death for those aged 85 years or older. COVID-19 mortality&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/18\/covid-19-as-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mortality","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}