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So #COVID is killing more than 1,000 Americans each week right now, according to the CDC, and it's been that way since August: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00

COVID #deaths probably are undercounted in the USA (as well as worldwide): https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2023/covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-continue-to-be-undercounted-research-shows-despite-claims-of-overcounts/

But let's take the official CDC figures at face value. Can we contextualize this? What else kills Americans at the rate of something like 1,000 deaths every week, more or less? I have trouble wrapping my head around it, and I'm sure I'm not alone.