According to the US Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2020 was the deadliest year in US history, Politico newspaper reports.
More than 400,000 US residents have fallen victim to the COVID pandemic, which has driven a 15 percent increase in the total number of deaths in the United States, according to the CDC. Coronavirus infection has become the third most common cause of death in Americans, giving way to heart disease and cancer.
Experts from Johns Hopkins University, making calculations based on information from federal and local authorities, argue that in just the time of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, more than 29 million people were infected with the infection, more than 529 thousand died.