The rate of deaths directly due to jumped by 26 percent in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, government data has revealed, when millions of Americans hit the bottle during months spent at home under .The and Prevention found that alcohol-caused liver or pancreas failure, alcohol poisoning, withdrawal and other 'alcohol-induced' deaths jumped from 39,000 in 2019 to 52,000 last year.The rate of had been increasing in the two decades before the pandemic, by 7 percent or less each year. In 2020, it rose 26 percent to about 13 deaths per 100,000 Americans.
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