Preliminary CDC figures suggest 2020 will be the deadliest year in U.S. history with more than 3.2 million deaths (above)
* Preliminary CDC figures suggest 2020 will be the deadliest year in U.S. history with a record 3,260,397
* The 2020 death toll is approximately 15% higher than the 2,835,533 Americans who died in 2019
* Other deadly years include 1,430,079 deaths in 1918, the year of the Spanish Flu pandemic; 1,459,544 deaths in 1943, amid World War II; and 1 ,930,082 deaths in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War
* It includes more than 347,000 people in the U.S. who died of COVID-19
* One study found an additional 75,000 people died indirectly due to the pandemic such as delaying seeking life-saving medical care
* CDC data also shows a record 81,000 died of drug overdoses, mainly due to opioids such as fentanyl
Preliminary figures suggests 2020 will be the deadliest year in U.S. history.
A record 3,260,397 people died last year, which public health experts says is due to COVID-19, indirect pandemic deaths and overdoses.
That figure is about 15 percent higher than the 2,835,533 Americans who died in 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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WNU Editor: The scary part is that these death numbers could have been worse. Some models last year were predicting 2.2. million deaths from Covid-19 alone in their worst case scenarios .... How One Model Simulated 2.2 Million U.S. Deaths from COVID-19 (CATO Institute).
