CDC reports examine U.S. Death Rates for 2021 and found that it was responsible for 13% of all deaths in the U.S. in 2021, up from 10 percent the year prior.
“In both 2020 and 2021, the only conditions that killed more people than Covid were heart disease, which caused 693,000 deaths last year, and cancer, at 605,000 deaths in 2021.”