Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes, March-July 2020

Steven H Woolf; Derek A Chapman; Roy T Sabo; Daniel M Weinberger; Latoya Hill; DaShaunda D H Taylor

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19545

Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes, March-July 2020

JAMA. 2020 Oct 20;324(15):1562-1564. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.19545.

Authors

Steven H Woolf¹, Derek A Chapman¹, Roy T Sabo², Daniel M Weinberger³, Latoya Hill¹, DaShaunda D H Taylor¹

Affiliations

¹ Center on Society and Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
² Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
³ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.

Abstract

This study updates a previous report of the estimated number of excess deaths in the US during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic through August 1, 2020, and describes causes of those deaths and temporal relationships with state lifting of coronavirus restrictions.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Cause of Death
Coronavirus Infections / mortality*
Humans
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality*
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology

Abstract

MeSH terms

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