Noah Lyles said he was diagnosed with COVID-19 days before winning bronze in the men’s 200m at the Paris Olympics. Moments after finishing third in the race, Lyles left the track in a wheelchair with medical staff and then returned to speak live on television.
Health officials announced Thursday that death rates in the United States from COVID-19 decreased last year for all age groups through 2022.
According to the new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Aug. 8, COVID-19 has gone from the fourth to the tenth leading cause of death. During the COVID-19 pandemic, cornonavirus was the third leading cause of death in the country.
In 2023, COVID-19 was the underlying cause of 1. 6% of all deaths, up from 5. 7% in 2022.
The fitness firm stated that the leading causes of death in 2023 were central diseases, cancer and a category of injuries involving deaths from firearms and drug overdoses.
In 2023, there were a total of 3. 1 million deaths in the United States, up from 3. 3 million in 2022. Death rates decreased from 2022 to 2023 for all age groups (but particularly for children 0 to four years). Age-adjusted death rates in 2023 were higher for men than women.
A fitness employee places a swab in a solution for a Covid-19 PCR test at a Reliant Health Services control site in Hawthorne, Calif. , on Jan. 18, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP Getty Images)
Death rates in 2023 differed by race and ethnicity and decreased from 2022 to 2023 for all groups, but disparities persist. Rates were lowest among multiracial people and among black people.
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CDC’s provisional knowledge is based on death certificate data collected so far. Final knowledge is expected to be available later this year.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released initial insights into mortality in the United States in 2023. This was published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.