Covid-19 is rapidly becoming America’s leading cause of death

Washington Post logoHow does the coronavirus compare to other major causes of death in an average week?

In just weeks, covid-19 deaths have snowballed from a few isolated cases to thousands across the country each day.

as he attempted to create context for the threat — but it turned out that more than five times as many Americans died from covid-19 last week than were killed in the World War II raid.

You can grasp the scale when you compare a single week’s pandemic deaths with how many people die of major causes in a typical week. Continue reading.