CDC Says 6% of U.S Deaths From COVID-19 Were COVID Only Deaths

August 30, 2020

By: Staff Report

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – The CDC has released a report stating that 94% of COVID-19 related deaths have had underlying medical conditions, with 6% or 9,628 deaths in the United States, having only COVID-19 listed on their death certificate and no underlying medical conditions.

The data listed is below or you can click here to view the full report.

Table 3. Conditions contributing to deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), by age group, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 8/22/2020.*

Updated August 26, 2020

	Number of Conditions
	Age Group
Conditions Contributing to Deaths where COVID-19 was listed on the death certificate1	ICD–10 codes	All ages	0–24 years	25–34 years	35–44 years	45–54 years	55–64 years	65–74 years	75–84 years	85 years and over
Total COVID-19 deaths2, as of 8/22/2020	U071	161,392	330	1,241	3,228	8,501	20,295	34,334	42,587	50,867
Respiratory diseases		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Influenza and pneumonia	J09–J18	68,004	111	564	1,428	3,967	9,438	15,389	18,116	18,989
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	J40–J47	13,780	24	59	139	403	1,486	3,262	4,335	4,071
Adult respiratory distress syndrome	J80	21,899	59	231	612	1,795	3,777	5,757	5,317	4,349
Respiratory failure	J96	54,803	99	401	1,016	2,981	7,208	12,601	15,100	15,394
Respiratory arrest	R09.2	3,282	6	21	64	160	362	667	891	1,111
Other diseases of the respiratory system	J00–J06, J20–J39, J60–J70, J81–J86, J90–J95, J97–J99, U04	5,664	18	45	113	287	708	1,193	1,531	1,769
Circulatory diseases		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Hypertensive diseases	I10–I15	35,272	14	98	447	1,529	4,237	7,701	9,679	11,566
Ischemic heart disease	I20–I25	18,103	2	22	90	420	1,656	3,695	5,461	6,755
Cardiac arrest	I46	20,210	46	186	470	1,324	2,923	4,560	5,080	5,620
Cardiac arrhythmia	I44, I45, I47–I49	9,812	9	22	58	221	709	1,748	2,873	4,172
Heart failure	I50	10,562	4	40	82	272	887	1,809	2,913	4,555
Cerebrovascular diseases	I60–I69	7,653	7	23	80	269	871	1,704	2,237	2,461
Other diseases of the circulatory system	I00–I09, I26–I43, I51, I52, I70–I99	8,743	39	98	209	504	1,129	1,928	2,157	2,679
Sepsis	A40–A41	14,053	31	136	345	1,035	2,404	3,863	3,539	2,700
Malignant neoplasms	C00–C97	7,415	24	31	90	277	1,006	1,932	2,250	1,805
Diabetes	E10–E14	25,936	41	168	585	1,797	4,262	6,956	6,912	5,214
Obesity	E65–E68	5,614	79	272	630	1,017	1,399	1,317	695	205
Alzheimer disease	G30	5,608	0	0	0	2	50	372	1,627	3,557
Vascular and unspecified dementia	F01, F03	18,497	0	0	2	20	283	1,713	5,409	11,070
Renal failure	N17–N19	13,693	14	110	287	909	2,001	3,477	3,597	3,296
Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events	S00–T98, V01–X59, X60–X84, X85–Y09, Y10–Y36, Y40–Y89, U01–U03	5,133	36	124	176	302	609	1,003	1,220	1,661
All other conditions and causes (residual)	A00–A39, A42–B99, D00–E07, E15–E64, E70–E90, F00, F02, F04–G26, G31–H95, K00–K93, L00–M99, N00–N16, N20–N99, O00–O99, P00–P96, Q00–Q99, R00–R08, R09.0, R09.1, R09.3, R09.8, R10–R99	77,990	251	700	1,552

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