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By Bruce Bower, ScienceNews
on Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:14 AM
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Premature deaths in the United States from drugs, alcohol and obesity-related causes became a public health crisis that set the stage for COVID-19 challenges, a new report finds.
There is no good time for a pandemic, but COVID-19 hit the United States as a public health crisis was well under way.
The novel coronavirus has exacerbated already rising death rates among Americans in the prime of their lives, a new report concludes. Especially hard-hit are racial minorities and people of all races with low incomes and a high school education or less.