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COVID-19 likely Iowa’s 3rd leading cause of death for 2020 – The Gazette
DES MOINES – As it turns out, COVID-19 is far worse than the flu.
DES MOINES — As it turns out, COVID-19 is far worse than the flu.
COVID-19 likely will go down as the third-leading cause of death in Iowa in 2020, when 4,667 Iowans were confirmed to have died as a result of the disease by Dec. 31, public health data show.
Iowa’s first COVID-19 death was recorded March 24, 2020, of a person identified by the state as a Dubuque County resident between 61 and 80 years old.
If the state’s five-year averages for causes of death hold, only cancer and heart disease will…
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