COVID-19 s now the fourth leading cause of death in Ohio. It could be No. 3 by Christmas Anne Saker, Cincinnati Enquirer
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As deadly infectious diseases go, COVID-19 has overperformed going from zero infections in Ohio on March 1 to the state’s third-leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer, by Christmas.
A new analysis by the nonprofit Health Policy Institute of Ohio also found that, charted weekly, COVID-19 deaths in December have surpassed the weekly number of cancer deaths last December. For the week ended Dec. 5, COVID-19 deaths nearly exceeded heart-disease deaths for that same week in 2019.
As deadly infectious diseases go, COVID-19 has overperformed going from zero infections in Ohio on March 1 to the state’s third-leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer, by Christmas.
A new analysis by the nonprofit Health Policy Institute of Ohio also found that, charted weekly, COVID-19 deaths in December have surpassed the weekly number of cancer deaths last December. For the week ended Dec. 5, COVID-19 deaths nearly exceeded heart-disease deaths for that same week in 2019.
The study compared the number of Ohio deaths from COVID-19 to the state’s leading disease killers in 2019: heart disease, all cancers and accidental deaths, which includes drug overdoses. As of Dec. 20, COVID-19 ranked No. 4 on the institute’s report, with 8,047 deaths.
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