this needs confirmed as right or wrong before discarding or merging, declined 2 duplicate recs to be able to address it here, clearly needs confirmed
Here’s CDC, really it’s because of covid FastStats - Leading Causes of Death
COVID’s going to mess up the numbers for 2020-2022, though hopefully just a blip… per that page, on the 2019 death ranking (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-09-508.pdf) p13 lists chronic lower resp disease as 3rd leading cause of death. holding off on approval to check agreement.
I’m going to go for it and approve.