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Coronavirus is now the No. 1 killer in America. Here’s how it compares to other leading causes in Utah.

(Mary Altaffer | AP) Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment remove bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Thursday, April 2, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. As coronavirus hot spots and death tolls flared around the U.S., the nation's biggest city was the hardest hit of them all, with bodies loaded onto refrigerated morgue trucks by gurney and forklift outside overwhelmed hospitals, in full view of passing motorists.

(Mary Altaffer | AP) Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment remove bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Thursday, April 2, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. As coronavirus hot spots and death tolls flared around the U.S., the nation's biggest city was the hardest hit of them all, with bodies loaded onto refrigerated morgue trucks by gurney and forklift outside overwhelmed hospitals, in full view of passing motorists.

By https://author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub/sltrib/991e0330-8bd7-4af7-9468-8252f0185e29.png Andy Larsen
 | April 7, 2020, 1:33 p.m.
| Updated: 8:04 p.m.

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Andy LarsenData columnist

Andy Larsen, a lifelong Utah resident who graduated with a math degree from Salt Lake City's Westminster College, is now The Tribune’s data columnist (after previously covering the Utah Jazz). When he's not writing about numbers in our world, Andy enjoys playing soccer, tennis and chess.