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Covid ‘Radically’ Altered Top Death Causes in 2021, Lancet Says
- Deaths from Covid displaced stroke as the second leading cause
- Global life expectancy rises by 6.2 years since 1990: study
A nurse checks on a patient in the ICU Covid-19 ward. Covid “radically altered” the main five causes of death for the first time in 30 years, displacing stroke, the publication said.
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Covid-19 became the second leading cause of death globally in the year after it was declared a pandemic, according to a study published in The Lancet.
While heart disease remained the top killer, Covid “radically altered” the main five causes of death for the first time in 30 years, displacing stroke, the publication said. In 2021, 94 in every 100,000 people died from Covid, on an age-standardized basis.