Coronavirus likely to become one of leading causes of death in US this year

Coronavirus is likely to become one of the leading causes of death in the US in 2020, Centres for Disease Control (CDC) statisticians have predicted.

While experts cannot officially rank leading causes of death until they have a full year's worth of data at the end of the calendar year, statisticians at the CDC told CNN that they expect Covid-19 will end up among the Top 10 leading causes of death in the nation.

“We know that based on the # of Covid-19 deaths so far in 2020, it will end up as a Top 10 leading cause of death but won't know exactly how high it will rank until next year,” CDC mortality statisticians told the broadcaster on Thursday.