{"id":10252,"date":"2025-09-10T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:47:48","slug":"covid-19-falls-off-list-of-top-10-causes-of-death-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/10\/covid-19-falls-off-list-of-top-10-causes-of-death-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 falls off list of top 10 causes of death in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/10\/leading-cause-death-heart-disease-cancer-suicide\/\">STAT<\/a> Death rates declined overall, but not for leading killers heart disease and cancer. Covid-19 fell out of the top 10 causes of death in the United States in 2024, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15620\/cdc\/174621\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"new data, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new data<\/a>&nbsp;released Wednesday, and the estimated overall mortality rate declined to its lowest level since 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suicide took Covid\u2019s place on the list. <br>Heart disease and cancer still rank as the first and second cause of death, with numbers that rose above last year\u2019s mark for each disease. Unintentional injury, with more than a half-million fewer deaths than the leading causes, had the third-highest mortality rate.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" Q R   cynazojKNwqARWzit s\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT Death rates declined overall, but not for leading killers heart disease and cancer. Covid-19 fell out of the top 10 causes of death in the United States in 2024, according to&nbsp;new data&nbsp;released Wednesday, and the estimated overall mortality rate declined to its lowest level since 2020.&nbsp; Suicide took Covid\u2019s place on the list. Heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11424,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}