Coronavirus is now the #1 cause of death in America — ahead of both heart disease and cancer. US surpassed Europe in active cases.

by DijonPepperberry

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Sources:

1. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
2. https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
3. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_09-508.pdf

Visualized in Microsoft Excel

Bonus Graph: on twitter, each day I’ve been breaking down common causes of death even further (as a physician, the “heart disease” death cause is bizarre to me, because ischemia – heart attacks – are very different from chronic heart failure, as are the different types of cancer).

Today, COVID just dwarfs everything else. https://imgur.com/m3dSSKI

Coronavirus is now the #1 cause of death in America — ahead of both heart disease and cancer.

US surpassed Europe in active cases