CNN (3/18, Ahmed) reported that “the number of deaths in the U.S. involving alcohol jumped 25.5% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to” a study that “analyzed death certificates provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics for people 16 and over between 2019 and 2020.” The study published in JAMA revealed that “there were 78,927 alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. in 2019 and 99,017 in 2020.” CNN added, “Alcohol-related deaths made up 2.8% of all deaths in 2019 and 3% in 2020.”
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— “Alcohol-related deaths in the US spiked more than 25% in the first year of the pandemic, study shows “Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, March 18, 2022