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. 2020 Aug 4;324(5):510-513.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.11787.

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

Steven H Woolf  1 , Derek A Chapman  1 , Roy T Sabo  2 , Daniel M Weinberger  3 , Latoya Hill  1
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Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes, March-April 2020

Steven H Woolf et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This study uses data from the National Center for Health Statistics to estimate excess deaths (ie, the difference between observed and expected deaths) in the US and the District of Columbia in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Weinberger reported receiving grants from Pfizer and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI137093) and personal fees from Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and Affinivax outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Weekly Death Rates From January 2019 Through April 2020
Data refer only to underlying causes of death; COVID-19 may have been a contributing cause in an unknown number of deaths. New Jersey and New York City experienced the largest relative increases.
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