Covid-19: Here's how projected fatalities compare to other causes of death

(HYACINTH EMPINADO/STAT)

Different models predicting the best- and worst-case scenarios of Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. range from 60,000 to a whopping 240,000. But how do these numbers compare to other common killers? The lower number is about on par with the number of people who died of stroke in 2017 (60,833), but the upper limit is still less than the more than 252,000 people who died of cancer last year. STAT's Sharon Begley and Hyacinth Empinado have more here.

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