Heart disease death rates have spiked in the past two years, but they had previously been falling along with heart attack and lung cancer death rates for several years.
BY SEAN McGOEY
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Rates of accidental overdose deaths have skyrocketed across the country, but increases in the Richmond area have been even more severe, with a local death rate nearly three times as high as the national average as of 2020.
BY SEAN McGOEY
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Deaths per 100,000 residents from 1999 to 2020
BY SEAN McGOEY
Richmond Times-Dispatch
In the past 20 years, residents of the Richmond area have been twice as likely to be killed by a gunshot than the average American.
BY SEAN McGOEY
Richmond Times-Dispatch
COVID-19 killed more people in the Richmond area in 2020 than any other single cause of death.
BY SEAN McGOEY
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dr. Robert Winn, head of the Massey Cancer Center, uses a microscope to work with human lung cancer cells at the Goodwin Research Laboratory in Richmond.
Daniel Sangjib Min/Times-Dispatch
ABOUT THIS STORY: The Times-Dispatch analyzed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data to determine top causes of death in the region. Aim your smartphone camera and tap the link to read more about what the data found.
Heart disease death rates have spiked in the past two years, but they had previously been falling along with heart attack and lung cancer death rates for several years.
Rates of accidental overdose deaths have skyrocketed across the country, but increases in the Richmond area have been even more severe, with a local death rate nearly three times as high as the national average as of 2020.
Dr. Robert Winn, head of the Massey Cancer Center, uses a microscope to work with human lung cancer cells at the Goodwin Research Laboratory in Richmond.
ABOUT THIS STORY: The Times-Dispatch analyzed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data to determine top causes of death in the region. Aim your smartphone camera and tap the link to read more about what the data found.
