{
  "id": 11484280,
  "title": "COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time since Pandemic Began",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/covid-19-drops-out-of-worlds-top-10-causes-of-death-for-first-time",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-02T17:09:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Health Policy Watch",
    "slug": "health-policy-watch",
    "url": "https://healthpolicy-watch.news/covid-19-drops-out-of-worlds-top-10-causes-of-death-for-first-time-since-pandemic-began/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped the list, according to new World Health Organization estimates released Friday. The virus directly killed an estimated 0.9 million people in 2023, ranking 14th, as […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}