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July 1, 2020JAMA Internal Medicine545 citationsOpen Access

Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020

DWDaniel M. WeinbergerJCJenny ChenTCTed Cohen

Key Points

  • The study aims to estimate the excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States during early 2020.
  • Analysis of mortality data from March to May 2020 across various states
  • Comparison of reported COVID-19 deaths to estimated excess deaths to assess underreporting
  • Examination of state-level variations in mortality burden
  • Excess deaths during the specified period indicate that official counts likely underreport true mortality
  • Variability in the mortality burden was observed across different states
  • The findings reveal that the pandemic's impact on mortality is broader than indicated by official death tallies

Abstract

Excess deaths provide an estimate of the full COVID-19 burden and indicate that official tallies likely undercount deaths due to the virus. The mortality burden and the completeness of the tallies vary markedly between states.

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Weinberger et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6b166fca0359822aa808fhttps://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3391
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