COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time since Pandemic Began

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COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time since Pandemic Began

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WHO estimates indicate that COVID-19 fell to the 14th-leading cause of death worldwide in 2023, with about 900,000 direct deaths. It is the first time since the pandemic began that the virus has fallen out of the global top ten.

COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […]

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