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. 2021 Apr 2;325(17):1786-1789.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.5199. Online ahead of print.

Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes in the US, March 1, 2020, to January 2, 2021

Steven H Woolf  1 , Derek A Chapman  1 , Roy T Sabo  2 , Emily B Zimmerman  1
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Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes in the US, March 1, 2020, to January 2, 2021

Steven H Woolf et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This study updates an analysis of US mortality in 2020, including deaths due to COVID-19 as well as all other causes.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Excess Deaths by Regions, March 1, 2020, to January 2, 2021
State data plotted from 8 regions, as defined by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. Surge patterns were independently examined for each of the 8 regions (Supplement); epidemic patterns were similar and could be merged as shown, except a bimodal pattern in the Great Lakes region was distinctive and plotted separately. Negative excess deaths were plotted as zero. State-level data are available on request.
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Comment in

  • doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.5120

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