https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/health/covid-19-deaths-us-250k-trnd/index.html
By Holly Yan and Daniel Wolfe, CNN
Updated 6:01 PM ET, Wed November 18, 2020
In less than 10 months, Covid-19 has killed more people than strokes, suicides and car crashes typically do in a full year -- combined.
The victims include an elderly father and his grown daughter who died within moments of each other. Two parents who died before their son's 5th birthday. In rare cases, even children with no known prior health conditions.
Health experts say if Americans don't get more serious about wearing masks and avoiding careless socializing, the rate of deaths will keep soaring this fall and winter.
Here's a look at how deadly Covid-19 is, compared with several other causes of death in the US. To get a more balanced picture, we took the five-year annual average ending in 2018, the latest available year of data for most causes.
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