COVID-19 compared to other common US causes of death - Business Insider - Business Insider

The US death toll from the novel coronavirus surpassed 100,000 last week, just four months after the first confirmed case in the country. .

To put that into perspective, we looked at how many Americans typically died from several common causes of death between February and May — the months of the US coronavirus outbreak — over the last several years.

The outbreak has killed more Americans than most other common causes of death in the US typically do over these months.