COVID-19 was third-leading cause of US deaths in 2020, CDC says - The Boston Globe COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in the US last year, contributing to a 15.9 percent increase in the death rate from a year earlier, the CDC said. Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, federal health researchers report.“Since the beginning of the pandemic, people were claiming deaths were simply being attributed to Covid when people were dying of other causes,” a federal health official said. “We show that’s not the case.” COVID-19 was 3rd leading cause of death in the US in 2020Only heart disease and cancer proved more deadly than coronavirus, which claimed lives of 345,000 Americans last year COVID-19 third leading cause of U.S. deaths in 2020 after heart disease, cancer: U.S. reportCOVID-19 was the primary or contributing cause of 377,883 deaths in the United States last year, with a particularly high toll among the elderly, according to a government report released on Wednesday. COVID-19 pushed total US deaths beyond 3.3 million last yearThe COVID-19 pandemic pushed total U.S. deaths last year beyond 3.3 million, the nation’s highest-ever annual death toll, the government reported Wednesday. The coronavirus caused...