Covid-19 third leading cause of US deaths in 2020: Report

Covid-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. The Covid-19 mortality rate made it the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020 after heart disease and cancer, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis found.