Week of May 1, 2023
MMWR Weekly Briefing
English - May 10, 2023 17:40 - 6 minutes - 15.3 MBScience hepatitis c hiv/aids influenza (flu) malaria measles mmwr mmwr summaries mpox polio (poliomyelitis) public health Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, a new report describes updates to CDC's tracking of COVID-19 data. Second, early death data show COVID-19 fell from the third to fourth leading cause of death in 2022. Third, most COVID-19 deaths occurred in hospitals, but an increasing percentage occurred in the decedent's home or in a nursing home or long-term care facility. Finally, cigarette smoking declined from 12.5% in 2020 to 11.5% in 2021, the lowest level recorded since 1965. However, the use of smoked tobacco products remains high.