• Drusas@kbin.social
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      By age group, COVID-19 ranked seventh (infants), seventh (1–4 year olds), sixth (5–9 year olds), sixth (10–14 year olds), and fifth (15–19 year olds).

      Pretty significant.

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        I didn’t; anything in the top 10 is “leading”, to me. And when you strip away accidents and assault/homicide it gets higher:

        fifth among all disease-related causes of death; and first in deaths caused by infectious or respiratory diseases.

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    Yikes. And this is only the mortality where covid was the main cause of death, not contributary such as when it gives people pneumonia.