US death rates drop nearlly 4% in 2024 as COVID falls out of top 10 leading causes of death: CDC

The United States death rate decreased by 3.8% in 2024 as COVID fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death for the first time in four years, new provisional federal data shows. The overall rate declined from 750.5 per 100,000 people in 2023 to 72... [4250 chars]