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Covid-19 has killed 250,000 people in the US. That's 10 times the deaths from car crashes in a year [cnn.com]:

Covid-19 has killed 250,000 people in the US. That's 10 times the deaths from car crashes in a year

The victims include an elderly father and his grown daughter [cnn.com] who died within moments of each other. Two parents who died before their son's 5th birthday [cnn.com]. In rare cases, even children with no known prior health conditions [cnn.com].

Health experts say if Americans don't get more serious about wearing masks and avoiding careless socializing, the rate of deaths will keep soaring [cnn.com] this fall and winter.

Here's a look at how deadly Covid-19 is, compared with several other causes of death in the US. To get a more balanced picture, we took the five-year annual average ending in 2018, the latest available year of data for most causes.

Car crashes and Covid-19

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