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Study: Alcohol-related deaths soared during first year of pandemic
The Xinhua reported that a recent study has revealed, alcohol-related deaths soared during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
According to the research published on Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, alcohol-related deaths spiked between 2019 and 2020 from 78,927 to 99,017, while deaths from other causes had smaller increases.
The Xinhua said that the research found, alcohol-related deaths accounted for 2.8 percent of all deaths in 2019 and 3.0 percent in 2020.
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It showed that the number and rate of alcohol-related deaths went up some 25 percent between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the pandemic.
Source: xinhua
