Researchers from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced this morning (Thursday) that 2020 was the deadliest year in the country’s history, according to a report on the Politico website. Due to the eruption of the corona, it was claimed, mortality increased by 15%.
More than three million people died in the United States and nearly 400,000 of them were corona patients. Accordingly, the corona virus was the third most common cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer. The Politico website added that it will publish the rest of the study’s findings in the coming week, and that this is the highest increase in mortality since 1918, when World War I took place.
The center’s experts are also expected to present in the study the mortality rates from corona among ethnic groups in the United States, while hundreds of thousands of cases are still being investigated. The organization has even previously published data showing that African-Americans are nearly twice as likely to die from the virus as white people. Hispanics are 2.3 times more likely to die, while Alaska natives are 2.4 times more likely to die.
Last night, the U.S. Congress finally approved President Joe Biden’s coronation plague economic aid program. The plan, worth $ 1.9 trillion, was approved after much opposition from Republican members.