COVID-19 Deaths Plunge by Over 70 Percent in America: CDC

CDC reports a dramatic 73 percent drop in COVID-19 deaths in 2023, moving from the fourth to the 10th leading cause.

A respiratory therapist checks on a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Rush University Medial Center in Chicago on Jan. 31, 2022. Scott Olson/Getty Images

New data reveal that COVID-19 has become a less deadly, endemic virus, with mortality dropping by over 70 percent as it fell from the fourth to the 10th leading cause of death in the United States last year.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, released on Aug. 8, are based on death certificate information collected by the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Vital Statistics System.